<p>Alright, so I've been reading all this stuff on NUIT about Internet usage policy and there's a part where they mention that students who share/download licensed stuff will be banned from the NU network.</p>
<p>I'm just wondering, do people ever get caught downloading songs or movies at NU?</p>
<p>Can the people at NUIT monitor that kind of stuff?</p>
<p>"I'm just wondering, do people ever get caught downloading songs or movies at NU?"</p>
<p>-Yes, yes they do. After that you have to call NUIT to get your internet turned back on... they yell at you and ask you if you know right from wrong. I don't know what happens after getting caught a second time though.....</p>
<p>is this just like soulseek or limewire? or does this include like dc++ or irc?</p>
<p>you can download stuff as long as your limewire or whatever isn't set to "share"</p>
<p>I wouldn't recommend downloading ANYTHING. The only thing we could get away with was MyTunes (and no insane amount of songs, just a couple here or there) but now with the new iTunes, that doesn't work anymore.</p>
<p>I know people who have gotten in trouble for even using torrenting. It's just not smart to download anything at school. If you're a music junkie, use Ruckus while you're away. If you want TV/movies, just use one of those free TV/movies websites that's been popping up lately.</p>
<p>as long as you don't upload there won't be anything suspicious</p>
<p>i mean you could try it out, the worst you can do is get yelled at (b/c people who dl and get caught all upload, which i guess creates suspicion and then they look into it)</p>
<p>it's not like they get bored and look at what everyone is doing</p>
<p>wow, that officially blows...</p>
<p>Seriously. That really blows.</p>
<p>So you're all telling me that I won't be able to download new songs or movies off of Bittorrent any more until like... WINTER BREAK?</p>
<p>"they yell at you and ask you if you know right from wrong."</p>
<p>KK, I thought you were just playing at first, but I'm guessing you meant it haha.</p>
<p>I think I'm going to miss high school.</p>
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"they yell at you and ask you if you know right from wrong."</p>
<p>KK, I thought you were just playing at first, but I'm guessing you meant it haha.
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<p>no, he's dead serious. my friend got lectured by one of the guys at NUIT.</p>
<p>you will be able to download songs, just don't set your programs to share. don't upload anything.</p>
<p>From what I know, a suspicious amount of activity downloading can alert them as well. I know someone who got in trouble for torrenting movies, but he was doing like, a couple a weekend. I bet if you did one or two it wouldn't be an issue.</p>
<p>But let me introduce you to your new best friends:</p>
<p><a href="http://tv-links.co.uk%5B/url%5D">http://tv-links.co.uk</a>
<a href="http://alluc.org%5B/url%5D">http://alluc.org</a></p>
<p>haha. thanks man</p>
<p>DON'T DOWNLOAD anything. the riaa is targetting schools like northwestern. Many others including myself were all just recently sued by the RIAA at the beginning of June. btw the lawsuits are $750 per song, which in my case equates to over $300,000. they do offer a much smaller amount if you are willing to settle, but it is still significant enough to the point where i'm working 55 hour/week this summer to pay it off.</p>
<p>"the lawsuits are $750 per song, which in my case equates to over $300,000. "</p>
<p>ouch. aright. no songs. sigh</p>
<p>"the riaa is targetting schools like northwestern."</p>
<p>so is it just NU that's so strict on downloading things or are most schools these days anal about this stuff?</p>
<p>No, the RIAA has targeted a number of schools. It's easy to catch people at schools because it's all monitored. You definitely, definitely should not download music; just use Ruckus! Free music as long as you have a college email address (you just can't play the songs alone or on an mp3 player, only through Ruckus on your computer). So, use Ruckus when you want to play music for parties at school or for fun or whatever, and then go home and download stuff over breaks for use on your iPod.</p>
<p><a href="http://ruckus.com%5B/url%5D">http://ruckus.com</a></p>
<p>Haha, um... I don't know what the hell you guys are talking about, me and my friends torrent gigs every week, and nothing's happened. In fact, I haven't even heard of anything happening to anyone. I never download music though, mostly movies, TV shows (family guy and south park) and games, so that may be why.</p>
<p>That's lucky, but I'm not just being stupid about this- I know two people who had their internet shut off and had to go to NUIT, explain the situation, apologize, etc. and were told that if it happened again there would be real consequences. And those were for torrenting movies every weekend.</p>
<p>thanks for the links dfleish.</p>
<p>hey but is it safe to register and use this Ruckus thing?
if you can have access to new albums on this website, i don't see how this would be legal and not torrenting haha</p>
<p>It's 100% legal, free music for college kids. It's legal because it's basically just like streaming music that you can't do anything with. Ruckus (the program) functions like iTunes and you can make playlists and get any song- the catch is that you can only use it in Ruckus. You don't get .mp3 files that you can do whatever you want with, whether that be sharing them, putting them on your iPod, etc. But it's a perfect solution for listening to music at college.</p>
<p>Look, Penn State agrees!
<a href="http://www.ruckusnetwork.com/pressrelease.php?id=129%5B/url%5D">http://www.ruckusnetwork.com/pressrelease.php?id=129</a></p>
<p>Um...is it only for RIAA/MIAA stuff or does this apply to all Torrenting. Not that I torrent or anything...I was just interested.</p>
<p>You can't download anything at school, including torrenting, because if NUIT picks up on it they will shut off your internet. </p>
<p>However, as far as getting sued and whatnot, all I have ever heard of is the RIAA going after students, which doesn't apply to like...torrenting a video game or comptuer program or even a movie. Either way, I wouldn't do it.</p>