<p>Hello guys. I know this is a popular question, so can anybody tell me how strict Bucknell’s policies on downloading stuff are? Is it safe to download music and movies from different websites (including foreign ones) and/or use torrents on campus? I mean, without seeding, uploading, and sharing anything. Do they monitor everything or pretty much overlook that sort of stuff? Can they check our laptops, or worse, erase HDs? And yes, I know it’s illegal but I’m still curious. If you don’t want to discuss it here please feel free to PM me 
Cheers</p>
<p>Library and Information Technology monitors how much you are downloading from outside of Bucknell’s network and if you exceed a certain limit your internet suddenly becomes super slow.</p>
<p>Thanks! Do you know what the limit is? And for how long it becomes “super slow”?</p>
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<p>That should answer your questions! (:</p>
<p>From my experience, BU’s also made torrenting speed really slow or just non-existent. LIT’s been able to block most torrenting processes. Although… I will say that, according to my computer science and engineering friend who just graduated, there is a way around that–that’s if you can get a hold of a Bucknell engineering computer, which has virtually unrestricted internet.</p>
<p>Thanks guys! 10GB for three days sounds fair enough. Good there’s this tool reporting bandwidth usage, only it doesn’t seem to work at the moment…</p>
<p>It doesn’t work unless you’re actually on the Bucknell network…</p>