<p>Hey one of my friends uses BearShare.....if he continues using it when he goes to college could he get in trouble? Since the internet is the college's network, could he get caught or expelled? Or do colleges not care about stuff like that?</p>
<p>What, they check your computer?</p>
<p>BearShare!?</p>
<p>If your friend is worried, he can load up his BearShare on cd and uninstall the program. And then just buy Limewire Pro. Or even download the free version of limewire, after they get to the dorm.</p>
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uh huh...sure</p>
<p>^^^ uuhhh no! </p>
<p>If it was me I would say so. Why would I care what any of you think of me?</p>
<p>Also I used to use bearshare, and it works great...!!! it is way better than limewire and kazaa. But I stopped using it when someone told me they knew someone who got in trouble with it.</p>
<p>i'm not sure if someone did get in trouble but whatheffa</p>
<p>i dunno about bearshare, i know you can't use Limewire or you could get in trouble.</p>
<p>haha I know someone who got in trouble with kazaa or something but he was only fined a few hundred dollars, and he had downloaded like thousands of songs. and he didnt stop after he got in trouble, it wasnt a big deal</p>
<p>i know of several people who have used similar programs and had their internet access taken away. If it is "illegal", ie you are not paying for the music, there is a reasonable chance your school will find out. many schools have firewalls built into their ethernet (i think thats what its called). Schools make a record of any file transfers and can track them. often these transfers are accompanied by cookies, viruses, etc and this is how the school finds out. my friend had her internet access taken away from any computer on campus. essentially, they deactivated her student id code, which really sucked when she had to do research and write papers. it was also very embarrassing to explain to her professors why she couldnt access the internet.</p>
<p>Are you serious? no music dling in college? tell me it aint so...</p>
<p>y dont you guys just use a search engine to download music? do u not know the names of the songs/artists you want?</p>
<p>Torrent/IRC/Newsgroups. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.</p>
<p>uh...yeah cause if they can track your limewire usage they SOOO can't track torrents???? For the love of G-D!!!</p>
<p>I guess it depends on the school. Here, as long as you arn't trying to run a bootleging buisness and/or are staying under the 2 gig download/ half gig upload per week limit, you're pretty straight. I think I like it that way. I say make every student liable for his/her own behind and go about your buisness...monitoring people isn't cool in my book.</p>
<p>i know someone who almost got kicked out of columbia for downloading music. the computer people erased her entire hard drive to get rid of everything</p>
<p>Do they have a right to do that? Erase your HD?</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure it's not and assuming she had papers research etc. on it she should sue.</p>
<p>Agree with the post about specific colleges. At someplace like Cornell (this information is from the grapevine) a lot of the students use DC++. Apparently, the school monitors Limewire use, as well as applications similar to it. Try to find out through upperclassmen which app they use without consequences.</p>
<p>Yeah to piggieback off of the post above DC++ is your best bet in that if a person sets up a hub on the schools network anyone who is connected on the school network can use it without the bandwith restrictions becasue all of the traffic is with the network. This also makes for some amazingly fast downloads. Imagine downloading an entire 1 gig movie file an about 10 minutes becasue you're getting around 1-5 MB per sec transfers within the network. It's insane. Ask someone who's into computers and such at your school .. i'm sure they'll know about a server if it exists.....not that I condone the illegal downloading of unpurchased products ...:)</p>
<p>ah about the person i was talking about- he didn't get in trouble with his college. he was still in high school so it was the actual authorities, like he went to court or something</p>
<p>they let her keep her word documents, but that was it</p>