<p>how bout using RAPIDSHARE</p>
<p>I've received warnings before for downloading programs, and others have received them as well for movies/music/etc (although many people I know got hit with the warnings in the same timeframe two years ago). Others have been nailed with really weird charges for things you wouldn't believe if I told you. A friend of mine had a suit filed against them by the RIAA, which was pretty ugly.</p>
<p>In general, P2P downloaders/sites are perfectly fine, but the content is what matters. In general, torrents tend to be the source of most of these warnings due to the nature of their operation and function. </p>
<p>In either case, there's always Ruckus and stuff like Pandora if you're really risk-averse.</p>
<p>Last year, Penn subpoenaed around 900 students, most of whom payed 700 dollars per song.
CETS and the IT department monitors every packet you send. If they get a warning from the RIAA or the MPAA, you will go to court. 900 students have just last year.</p>
<p>The RIAA and the MPAA are very prominent in universities with good internet, like Penn. They're especially here. You can see their posters everywhere.</p>
<p>Penn2013, if you're going to be downloading HD movies, pornography, and be "drinking at frat parties/bars b/c thats only fun once in a while" then GTFO, troll.</p>
<p>what about rapidshare and no im not a troll</p>
<p>All direct download sites should be safe (rapidshare, megaupload, etc.)</p>
<p>Just don't use torrents. Ever.
Well, you could get away downloading much older content, but what's the point of risking it. There's plenty of ways to search for files that are available through direct download.</p>
<p>I also heard the RIAA won't be filing new suits, just simply shutting down your ISP connection until you pay a fine or something of the sort.</p>
<p>I stick with direct downloads as 2e4L mentioned. One of my roomate's friends got subpoenaed last year - definitely not worth it.</p>
<p>Wait, so is Limewire not safe to use? What about Limewire PRO, the one you have to pay for?</p>
<p>@ QuakerOats415</p>
<p>LimeWire, in my opinion, is especially unsafe. PRO means nothing. It still operates a centralized network.</p>
<p>My friend at Penn has been downloading massive quantities of copyright material and has not been caught. Also, my understanding is that the school well send you a warning first (no fine), so you might as well keep dling until then.</p>
<p>direct download is fine with such a high-speed Internet connection. no need to accelerate download via P2P.
btw, watch Youtube high-quality instead.</p>
<p>i’ve heard that there are student-run file sharing hubs on campus… any truth to this?</p>
<p>Does anybody know if Vuze is safe?</p>
<p>@qwertylad Vuze is bittorrent, so i’d have to say no, it probably isn’t.</p>
<p>all depends on what you download</p>
<p>i used azureus (what vuze used to be called) all the time when i was at penn</p>
<p>Audacity should be okay, right? I mean, it’s just music recording software haha.</p>
<p>One other question, does Penn have lined connections (ethernet) in the college dorm rooms? I’m hoping it’s not all wireless. (I will be living in Hill, if that information will help with an answer).</p>
<p>Frostwire all the way. Or download Limewire Pro via Limewire, it’s so funny when I realized you could do that. Direct downloads work the best.</p>
<p>You guys need to use Freenet. Basically it’s mathematically impossible to prove that you’ve downloaded something. The way it works is that you reserve X amount of disk space from your computer for the network. When someone uploads something to the network it stores it one the hard disks of the users in an encrypted form. Thus, you have no idea what’s on your computer on the disk space you’ve allocated for it. Also when someone issues a request to download something, the network will route the data through third parties and no one knows whether the machine sending you the data is just a proxy and the proxy has no idea what the data he is passing really is.</p>
<p>You can download the software here:</p>
<p>[The</a> Freenet Project - /index](<a href=“http://www.freenetproject.org%5DThe”>http://www.freenetproject.org)</p>
<p>It’s not as fast as bittorrent for file sharing purposes and the amount of stuff available is not as big. I’m sure that the MPAA/RIAA and the other *******s are going to try to ban these kinds of services too. However, Freenet was originally designed to provide full anonymity for whistleblowers and people who wanted to communicate from countries that monitor their traffic. Blocking it wouldn’t be morally such a great thing and really the only way to prevent it would be to make everyone liable for all traffic they route which would basically make any use of cryptography online impossible to use due to possible legal implications.</p>
<p>The only problem with Freenet is that due to it’s design (to protect anonymity) it’s not as fast as bittorrent (designed to provide maximum bandwidth).</p>
<p>better use TOR network</p>