can't download music on campus?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - San Diego
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<p>hmm so i know this will present a problem for many. i remember them saying at orientation that the school monitors it or something and that if you illegally download anything, you have a chance of getting fined serious money. i heard of a student who was fined like $2800 for downloading at school. i don't have an ipod right now- i was planning on getting one, but i'm a little reluctant now. mp3s are kind of out of the question if you don't want to pay for every song and i have A LOT of music. mixed cd's are an option...but idk.</p>

<p>any comments/suggestions?</p>

<p>thanks!</p>

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<p>just don’t use torrents or limewire/kazaa and you’ll be fine.</p>

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<p>playlist.com was wonderful this year. also my brother sent me a **** ton of music via email… I owe him for all of those times.</p>

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<p>It’s definitely a lot more work but googling for Megaupload links is safe… and I’ve been doing that for a long time.</p>

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<p>@ucsandiego915</p>

<p>so i’m assuming if someone else sends you a file via email of a song they downloaded themselves on their own computer, it’s okay? because aren’t you going to download that onto your computer so doesn’t it register as having been downloaded illegally because that’s how you got it?</p>

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<p>What about foreign software that is very similar to limewire?</p>

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<p>any form of p2p is monitored end of story.</p>

<p>the safest way to go about any form of downloading would be through http links.</p>

<p>thats the word on the street anyway</p>

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<p>i was wondering how about like watching live sports/tv show streams on internet like justin.tv or sopcast. is that okay?</p>

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<p>Justin.tv is ok because they is http. Soapcast is P2P…but I think it will be ok.</p>

<p>Anything http will work fine (rapidshare, megaupload, etc).</p>

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<p>rapidshare</p>

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<p>I downloaded close to a tB of stuff using megaupload last year. It’s a beautiful thing to download at 10 mB/s</p>

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<p>Where did you live last year? Fastest I got in ERC res halls was 5 mb/s… which I was still satisfied with.</p>

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<p>I’m pretty sure that having someone email you files is all right because that is not P2P sharing.</p>

<p>not sure about livestream… but I hope it’s all right … !</p>

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<p>The possibility of being able to download 5-10 mb/s is beautiful.</p>

<p>Especially when my connection at home is about 190 kb/s.</p>

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<p>Idk if maybe I was just lucky but I took summer classes there for a little more than a month and was downloading music off of torrents everyday including at least 50GB worth of Formula 1 Racing Videos since they played on TV at obscene hours during the moment. Never got a notice or anything, and I left them on by accident and seeded about 30 gigs worth of bandwidth a couple times too.</p>

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<p>I lived… in the ERC reshalls last year.</p>

<p>I routinely got 10 mB/s downloading from Megaupload.com. Ten Mega BYTES per second. That’s 80 mb/s (eighty megabits per second)</p>

<p>ichor: 5-10 mb/s is not very fast. 190 kb/s is retardedly slow… not much faster than 56k dial up.</p>

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<p>@SDTriton </p>

<p>I have no idea what is wrong with my wireless connection, especially because it’s not dial-up. :frowning: And yes, it is retardedly slow… and very, very frustrating. </p>

<p>But at least I’ll have UCSD’s fast connection to look forward to!</p>

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<p>10mbps in muir baby</p>

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<p>In terms of music, how is megaupload compared to what.cd or demonoid?</p>

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<p>10mb/s in an ERC res hall?? How on earth…</p>