<p>Now some of you are like, how can you accidentally torrent?
Before you go single me out and lecture me about how I shouldn't even be using a torrent software and any punishment coming my way is what I deserve, I'm not the only person in the world to torrent so move on to another thread please. </p>
<p>I occasionally torrent at home, but I forgot to quit my program when I got to school.
After I realized my torrent program was still running, I quit the program right away.
I noticed I was connected to their network for a good hour or so.
It was only one file and I'm not sure if it was completed downloaded before I got to campus or it finished downloading after.
Either way, it has been seeding which is my main concern.
Like I previously mentioned, I was unaware of this until I started closing all the open programs on my mac (it's my first mac, only had it for 2 days, and i'm still getting used to it).</p>
<p>Do you think the consequences will be severe? Will they even notice?
Will I be stripped completely away of my privilege to use the school's internet? Is there a possible suspension? I'm just really paranoid...</p>
<p>I know in my school if you’re caught torrenting (and if you do it a lot you will eventually get caught), your internet will be suspended and you’ll have to sign something stating that you won’t torrent again. If I were you I’d delete the torrent software from your computer so you won’t accidently do it again.</p>
<p>It definitely depends on the school. At my school, it seems like you’ll only be caught if you do it a decent amount (aka they don’t want to bother tracking down single time offenders). However, I did hear that they made someone bring in their laptop and wipe the harddrive because of it. Which seems like a really terrible punishment if you’re just going to make someone lose EVERYTHING on their computer (including school work) to get rid of the torrented material. Also a really terribly ineffective punishment, since all you have to do is back your harddrive up somewhere else first and then put it back on.</p>
<p>The fact of the matter is that MILLIONS of people do it on a daily basis and often times isps choose to overlook it. If you are really worried wipe you drive or simply unistall the torrent software. You should be fine tho</p>
<p>Torrenting in and of itself is not illegal. For example, you could torrent everything ever recorded by Jonathan Coulton and it would be perfectly legal, since he does everything under creative common license. But a lot of the torrented content is copyrighted, and that’s where the issue comes in.</p>
<p>Depends on the school, really. I’ll often torrent .iso’s when I’m in locations with bad internet (nothing like having to restart your 1GB Ubuntu 12.04 download because your internet dropped) and MIT hasn’t actually cracked down on me so far, despite torrenting being specially forbidden (because it chews up network bandwidth hah) and this is pretty obviously torrenting some giant files.</p>
<p>Some places don’t care if it’s not illegal; some places just ban torrenting outright. If what you were torrenting was legal, then you’ll probably be fine. If it wasn’t so legal, you’re…actually probably will also still be fine. But be careful; the more you do it, the higher of a risk you run ;P</p>
<p>Always use incognito mode
Always run PeerBlock
Always use a proxy
Always end your torrent software’s process when you’re done
Always go to a public location like Starbucks with free wifi </p>
<p>PeerBlock and proxies are constantly running once you set them up. Just ensure you’re at a public place, use incognito and END YOUR PROCESS.(CTRL-ALT-DELETE)</p>