<p>It completely depends on the policy at your school. At mine, or network is completely open and nothing is blocked. However, we have a system called NetReg so that the univeristy can identify the owner of each computer from the ethernet port (or WAP) that it uses. On it's own, the university would never press charges, but if a music/movie company ever wanted to press charges (usually only if your computer is being used as a hub, I've never heard of people who downloaded moderate amounts for personal use being sued) then the university would provide the records to the company so that they could identify the individual student involved. I have never heard of people's computers being "checked" for illegal software when they arrive at campus. One thing to keep in mind, though, is that if you ever have software or hardware issues and require the computer staff at your school to work on your pc, you're pretty screwed if you need to reformat and don't have the necessary disks to reload your operating system.</p>
<p>at my school there are rules against it (mainly because the founder of napster made it while he was a student here -at Northeastern Univ), but no one i know has ever been reprimanded or warned about p2p sharing.</p>
<p>Netflix does not delay delivers because you rent "too much" - that is BS.</p>
<p>"Netflix does not delay delivers because you rent "too much" - that is BS."</p>
<p>Yah, they do. There was a study and news report about it a while back.</p>
<p>Lurker-</p>
<p>You're wrong. I've actually had the privilege of speaking with Netflix's founder, and this is simply not true. There isn't any extra delay for me or any of my friends depending on how quickly or slowly any of us watches the films.</p>
<p>What you have to understand is that Netflix only has a few copies each of most "obscure", non-big name movies. Since people who rent like crazy have seen most of the major titles, they're more likely to watch less famous films. Since there's a higher chance all of the copies are being used, it takes a little longer for some to arrive.</p>
<p>That's why you rent about 100 films at once, so if 5 are currently unavailable, you can continue receiving movies at the same rate regardless.</p>
<p>That's a nifty rationale from the founder of Netflix, but the practice of "throttling" (which Netflix prefers to call its "fairness algorithm") is pretty well documented, both in the press and in court: "Netflix Practice of 'Throttling' Angers Heavy Renters; Suit Forces Company to Revise 'Terms of Use'" (<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=1603927&business=true%5B/url%5D">http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=1603927&business=true</a>).</p>
<p>Gracie -</p>
<p>Why would the founder of Netflix tell you anything different? You obviously don't rent heavily from Netflix, or else you'd be familiar with "throttling".</p>
<p>i meant 100rs. not 10. but thats still 2$</p>
<p>Alright, that's a new development ("throttling"). I talked with the founder over a year and a half ago, and back then they didn't have this particular system. </p>
<p>I haven't noticed as much in college, since I watch more films on my laptop, and fewer on projectors or TV screens.</p>
<p>But yeah, this definitely sucks.</p>
<p>Ofcourse the founder doesn't tell you that. He would obviously want to shine Netflix with a good light and the throttling issue definatly goes against that.</p>
<p>everyone pirates now days....it's as common as the ipod, whose popularity is from piracy btw</p>
<p>I travel in and out of the US frequently and they have never checked the files and contents of my laptop hard drives. All they've had me do is turn it on and shut it down after it boots . Don't think you should have a problem.</p>