<p>Do you ever use these?</p>
<p>Will they be "allowed" (well, not allowed...but usable) on campus??</p>
<p>I LOVE BT...it's my life ........</p>
<p>Some people I talked to there said people were arrested and sued for illegal downloads. So I would say, if you use that stuff, download it before you go there.</p>
<p>why don't you guys buy your music LEGALLY like me :]
99 cents a song on itunes.. haha.</p>
<p>I've mainly downloaded programs, but with access to all the best programs over the internet and huge discounts on those not through CAEN my downloading will be cut down to Xbox games and music. And plus its college, I'll probably trade music, movies, and games in person. I live out in the country in Wisconsin and graduated from a very low tech school so BT was my only option to get this stuff. I didn't know anyone else with them. But now I can just ask someone and borrow it....then just copy ;)</p>
<p>Oh and I don't think they block it since they said at orientation that while using P2P software, to be courtious and don't hog the bandwidth. I live near a college where they block it downright. I'm friends with the Dean of Students and her daughter there and she even got high speed at her house just because she couldn't use limewire at work...lol</p>
<p>there is a way around it so they can't track you down</p>
<p>You can't use BitTorrent. They block the ports BitTorrent uses, and if you get around it, just give it time, they will catch you. MyTunes is always great because you can share/download music from everyone that is sharing their iTunes playlist on the U of M network. Third party websites are great too, last year we got a ton of free movies using Rapidshare. Usually if it's well known, they know about it too, and you don't want to lose your network access.</p>
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<p>i love bt...</p>
<p><em>cough</em> proxies anyone?</p>
<p>Period Start: 08/15/2005
Period End: 07/30/2006
Days: 348.59
Bytes: 1,001,450,392,218</p>
<p>Lol</p>
<p>It's not like using a proxy server will get around it... U of M isn't that ignorant. Trust me I've seen people get screwed over this... it really sucks but you find other ways to deal and ways around it.</p>
<p>What do you mean 'get screwed'? What do they do if they catch you?</p>
<p>"U of M isn't that ignorant"</p>
<p>If I could get away with downloading a terabyte over the network I don't think there is too much to worry about.</p>
<p>Yeah, 99 cents a song...and when you figure I have 1,625+ songs on my iPod then you realize if I had bought them they would add up real fast. Plus iTunes doesn't have a very good international selection. For example if I wanted to purchase Japanese songs then instead of going to a special section I would have to select the Japan store and either have a Japanese credit card or Japanese gift card...which I don't.</p>
<p>just ask the comp sci majors how to do it...they know their s h i t</p>
<p>I am saying via BitTorrent. I know there are ways around it, but I have seen people lose their network access for using BT and other P2P such as LimeWire. I used Rapidshare last year and have downloaded/shared well over a TERABYTE of data too so it's not like I was saying it's virtually impossible. Just be smart about what you are doing, that's all.</p>
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<p>A regular proxy won't help you here. With a proxy you'd simply be connecting to another remote machine using the standard Bittorrent ports (6895 through 6900 or something like that) - which UM blocks. This would be no different from Bittorrent itself, which uses said ports to connect to multiple remote machines and piece together a file. A proxy server will only help if you need to connect to a banned IP. A solution would be to use a SSL VPN, which would route everything through port 22 and encrypt all traffic. This would rule out any sort of commercial service, but I doubt that you were going to do that anyway. Rolling your own proxy/VPN would require hardware, bandwidth to burn for the proxy server, and a certain degree of skill, since this would almost certainly be a UNIX-based thing. I also feel the need to add that a hefty 24/7 stream of traffic through a SSL connection is probably going to look suspicious no matter what. UM's network admins were not born yesterday.</p>
<p>soooo in conclusion...</p>
<p>there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY I can get around Bittorrent without getting caught?</p>
<p>I'm not going to say that, but a proxy server probably isn't the solution. That's all.</p>
<p>what happens if you do get caught?</p>
<p>do u get sued a lot of $? </p>
<p>do u get internet taken away?</p>
<p>I believe you get kicked off the network for some period of time, depending on the severity of the offense.</p>