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Would something like 500GBs/month (a lot being up) be a problem or do I have to be in the range of several TBs?
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You should ask your college’s IT staff about this. A friend of mine goes to Purdue, and he has a 5 GB/day quota. Going over that results in bandwidth throttling and eventual cutoff if he doesn’t rein in his bandwidth usage.</p>
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I think it’s this way at most schools; they don’t want non-employees and non-students using the network and taking up bandwith, or employees and students using up too much bandwith (which would cost them in some form).</p>
<p>500 gigs a month is a lot; my school has a limit of 10 GB for any given 7 day period, so roughly 40 gigs a month. After 10 gigs they limit internet speed to discourage use until you fall below the limit again.</p>
<p>I don’t know how it is at other schools but I imagine several hundred GBs a month or TBs a month might not fly.</p>
<p>edit: regarding hirako’s post, 5 GB a day! That’s quite a bit. So I guess it is heavily variable depending on school.</p>
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<p>It all depends on your school. At one point my undergrad school allowed unlimited download and something like 10GB over a 5 day period. Now I believe it’s down to 10 GB total (upload + download) over 5 days. They may have increased it since youtube/hulu/etc have become more popular, though.</p>
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<p>tell that to the university of florida
[On</a> Location: Implementing Icarus P2P-Blocking Software - Business Strategy - Network Computing](<a href=“news”>news)</p>
<p>does registering your computer make you easy to track?</p>
<p>also i’m using torrents to download and my audio is fine but i can’t get videos and music videos to play in my itunes/ipod. can someone help me with this?</p>
<p>also where can you go to find quality album pictures for the touch?</p>
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tell that to the university of florida
[On</a> Location: Implementing Icarus P2P-Blocking Software - Business Strategy - Network Computing](<a href=“news”>news)
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All of that can be easily circumvented with encryption.</p>
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You probably don’t have the right codecs installed.</p>
<p>Get this to play all sorts of files on your computer:
[VLC</a> media player](<a href=“http://www.videolan.org/vlc/]VLC”>Official download of VLC media player, the best Open Source player - VideoLAN)</p>
<p>Get this to convert files to play on your ipod:
[url=<a href=“HandBrake: Open Source Video Transcoder”>HandBrake: Open Source Video Transcoder]HandBrake[/url</a>]</p>
<p>Both are free and open source.</p>
<p>Can either hikaro or Qwerty confirm the validity of this? My school has a public wi-fi anyone can connect to, provided they log in with a valid email address.</p>
<p>If I were to create a completely uncompromising email account, clear my cookies consistently, would I be able to use this as means to “obtain” my digital fun?</p>
<p>Also, about Usenet, I read the discussion about it in this thread but still am unclear. Can a university see that you are using Usenet and thus bring the banhammer, and how is services like astraweb going to be effected by being now targeted by the RIAA, etc.? Basically, is Usenet a safe option to use at a University? Thank you for any answers.</p>
<p>quick question…what if i was to get on a website(forums) and then download from sites such as mediafire, zshare, rapidshare, and megaupload…that wouldnt be a big problem would it?</p>
<p>Jaybe1989, they would likely be able to tell you’re downloading from a Usenet server, but not what exactly you’re downloading. Same goes with BitTorrent/other P2P networks and FTP. Unless they specificly disallow Usenet (in which case you’d know), it wouldn’t be a problem.</p>
<p>As for RIAA/MPAA going after Usenet users or companies, I don’t think they’ve ever attempted it before at all. Very rarely will anyone be targeted for downloading copyright material, just uploading it. I don’t know much about Usenet, but I’m under the impression that it works like:</p>
<p>People upload to group servers, their files are split up into thousands of “posts”
Usenet providers take these “posts” and upload them on their own servers
You pay the Usenet provider to have access to their servers, and you can download these posts
A newsreader compiles these “posts” into the files they were orginally</p>
<p>I don’t know how the wifi available with an email address (atleast not unless it’s only for a University email address) works, so I can’t tell you anything about that.</p>
<p>Kingsham, it would only be shown as an http download, it would look the same as if you were browsing CC. You’d be fine.</p>
<p>For anyone interested in frequently updated news/information on Usenet (as well as all kinds of other file sharing mechanisms), check out [Slyck[/url</a>] on a regular basis. Something I just found is this [url=<a href=“http://www.slyck.com/Newsgroups_Guide_Super_Quickstart]Newsgroups”>http://www.slyck.com/Newsgroups_Guide_Super_Quickstart]Newsgroups</a> Super Quickstart Guide](<a href=“http://www.slyck.com/]Slyck[/url”>http://www.slyck.com/), which seems to suggest that you can get a **free trial<a href=“!!!”>/b</a> from Giganews, who also has this seemingly useful [Usenet</a> University](<a href=“http://www.giganews.com/usenet-university/]Usenet”>Usenet and Newsgroup Tutorials | Usenet University | Giganews) tutorial series.</p>
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My school has a public wi-fi anyone can connect to, provided they log in with a valid email address.</p>
<p>If I were to create a completely uncompromising email account, clear my cookies consistently, would I be able to use this as means to “obtain” my digital fun?
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Yes, you’d be fine. If you’re extremely paranoid, you might also want to spoof your wireless chipset’s MAC address.</p>
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Can a university see that you are using Usenet and thus bring the banhammer
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I think what you’re not realizing is that the university couldn’t care less what you’re downloading. Any and all copyright infringement accusations students have run into were originally brought up by the copyright holder.</p>
<p>Copyright holders determine whether you’re violating their copyrights by looking for IP addresses that are accessing their material via P2P networks (they connect to the network just like any other user would to get your IP address so they can upload to/download from you). The copyright holders don’t have some magical access to that information.</p>
<p>Since Usenet is not P2P (you are only connecting to the Usenet provider’s server(s)), there is no way for them to get your IP address (Usenet providers don’t retain IP addresses after transfers are completed, so that copyright holders can’t get that information).</p>
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how is services like astraweb going to be effected by being now targeted by the RIAA, etc.?
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I don’t exactly follow all the legal shenanigans that closely, but AFAIK, Astraweb’s never been targeted by the RIAA. Either way, if they were to get caught/shut down, you would be completely safe.</p>
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Basically, is Usenet a safe option to use at a University?
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Yes, I would say that it is probably the safest and most definitely the fastest and easiest option for college students.</p>
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quick question…what if i was to get on a website(forums) and then download from sites such as mediafire, zshare, rapidshare, and megaupload…that wouldnt be a big problem would it?
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Nope, you’d be fine.</p>