<p>if you want files and want to be fairly safe from UCLA's and RIAA's prying eyes I suggest you switch to newsgroups...</p>
<p>The safest way to conduct file-sharing is to forego the Internet entirely: form a network of friends and regularly meet on campus to swap DVD+/-RW discs which contain files you want to share. Not that there's an underground network at UCLA that does this anyways... or maybe there is. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Nice idea flopsy :)</p>
<p>I live off-campus so I don't come under UCLA's prying eyes...:D but my connection is really slow :(</p>
<p>Is the information on this website accurate?</p>
<p>"Philosophically as well as legally, UCLAs position is that we will not monitor for illegal activity ourselves."</p>
<p>If this is the case, then wouldn't using torrent on campus be the same as using torrent at home?</p>
<p>flopsy, how would the "files" get onto the DVD+RW in the first place?</p>
<p>With your DVD burner? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Are newsgroups safe? And if so, how so?</p>
<p>newsgroups are safe because there is no "sharing" involved....of course, nothing is safe but newsgroups have been in existence before P2P and it is under the radar of RIAA and MPAA</p>
<p>flopsy, what I meant was, where would they come from?</p>
<p>from a DVD+/-RW that you got from another person, of course! :rolleyes:</p>
<p>So you're asserting that UCLA students will have the equivalent amount of files that exist on the internet. What I meant was, there are obviously files that aren't available among fellow peers and must, inevitably, be downloaded.</p>
<p>Is rapidshare or megaupload safe?...My friend's friend said he got busted with megaupload with a warning, but i thought they couldn't catch that? is he lying?</p>
<p>It's as safe as a condom....**** still happens.</p>
<p>Megaupload and rapidshare both give you direct dl's, not p2p shared downloads. So, it should be 100% safe...</p>
<p>it's never going to be 100% safe, but it's definitely a lot safer than using p2p file sharing.</p>
<p>lmao since the beginning of the year, ive downloaded over 1TB of **** off of rapidshare. beats torrets. 6 mb/s download speeds, multiple parts, doesnt get any better. i get my 1080p's in like 10 minutes.</p>
<p>you only got 6 mb/s from torrents? must have been a bad torrent, because you should be able to get around 300 mb/s for most popular movies..</p>
<p>i highly suggest you NOT to use dc++ as many students in the past have gotten caught using it, and from my understanding it was actually through that program that ucla students started to get notoriously caught for downloading files. </p>
<p>also, if you want to be on the safer side...do not let others download from you. shut off your seeds...as the RIAA and other annoying people up there like tracking down the major seeders who allow massive amounts of leechers to download from them.</p>
<p>is 300 mb/s even possible? i mean 6 megabytes for rapidshare... and if you guys want free rs/mu accounts, just pm me...</p>
<p>Etti, you're thinking about kpbs, not mpbs.</p>
<p>6mbps is pretty darn fast.</p>
<p>300mpbs technically don't even exist on everyday computers, as the maximum bandwidth for a standard ethernet cable is 100mbps.</p>