<p>ok so we all download music and movies off the internet...at least most of us do. i dont think i've ever paid for a single song in my life but yea.</p>
<p>anyways how does berkeley restrict downloading with their internet connections? like do p2p's such as ares or limewire work at all? i'm assuming prolly not but i think i heard some people talking about ways to get around it and download normally b/c im sure someone would find a way around it. so anyone know how they do that?</p>
<p>You're limited to 5GB a week of total net usage. Can't download much.</p>
<p>You shouldn't be using P2P programs because of all the spyware they install.</p>
<p>You can get onto the local network's DC hub using a DC++ client.</p>
<p>Please note that students have been prosecuted for violating copyright and the University of California will not protect you. Since we are a public institution, IP addresses will be given out and there will be less of a fight compared to a private institution.</p>
<p>Yeah, save the mass downloading for the cafes, since wireless hotspots are very, very common in the Bay Area.</p>
<p>oh yeah true...no reason to only use yer comp on-campus</p>
<p>Buy CDs for God's sake
especially since you got ameoba and rasputin down the street, support independent artists!</p>
<p>Walking around with your laptop in Downtown Berkeley is shady business.</p>
<p>Opening it up at a cafe isn't.</p>
<p>what is "DC++ client."? can someone please explain how it works?</p>
<p>Direct Connect - You connect directly to a peer (the person with the file). Most of the time you are in one local area (i.e. Berkeley) and thus you are using local intranet and not internet (and thus no bandwith and much harder for anyone to track though it can be done). </p>
<p>DC++ client - a software that makes it easy to DC</p>
<p>Or atleast that's what I think it is :p</p>
<p>is it somewhat like limewire, where you search for file and download, or is it more complicated?</p>
<p>Pirate mainstream music. Purchase indie music. Go to your local music stores and freakin' buy things there!</p>
<p>what about the whole mytunes thing?</p>
<p>DC++ is pretty great. I'm not a technical person so I couldn't explain it all to you, but basically, if you just download/upload within the Berkeley hub, then none of it counts toward your 5gb limit. You can google it dc++ and berkeley hub to find a page explaining all of it. </p>
<p>OurTunes is an okay program, if you like mainstream music. Since you'll have like over a hundred kids in your dorm using iTunes, you'll be able to download from them (only when they're also on OurTunes though, I think? Or at least only if they have it installed? Or only if they're sharing their music? don't know) using OurTunes. I generally was able to access maybe 6-10 iTunes playlists from OurTunes, but the selection's not great.</p>
<p>Let me be more specific about DC++; using it doesn't count towards your 5GB bandwidth limit because DC++ operates on a intranet (LAN) level over the Berkeley network. The 5GB limit applies to all internet activity (information download from outside the Berkeley LAN). Of course, you can also search for other DC++ networks over the internet, since DC hubs can be operated at both the intranet and internet level. I personally get all my stuff via IRC, and since IRC downloads can be massive (most of my downloads number in the gigabytes per file), I will need to find an outside line to feed my appetite for zeroes and ones.</p>
<p>wow, its so much more complicated than limewire</p>
<p>Stop pirating ****. 'Nuff said.</p>