<p>Does anybody download music and movies at ucla? I was wondering if bittorrent or dc++ is usable without getting my ass sued lol.</p>
<p>and kinda along the same lines...they (RIAA) cant monitor internal network traffic can they? as in if i send my friend at UCLA something using UCLA's network and not the internet.</p>
<p>Yeah tons of people download music and movies, have you heard of My- tunes, its like I-tunes, but allows you to download songs off of everyones computer on your floor for free and really fast speeds (or whatever the network happens to be).</p>
<p>people do, athough UCLA warns you not to. </p>
<p>a bunch of students at Berkeley and UCSD were got subpeonas from RIAA this past spring. UCLA mass e-mailed us telling us not to become like those students. haha.</p>
<p>I was wondering about the same thing...I need to download episodes from tv shows I might miss. They were warning us during orientation though, and made it seem like they could track what we were doing -_-.</p>
<p>The dling at LA has come to almost a crawl (the main program was i2hub). The RIAA isn't releasing how they're doing it (and I'm almost certain its illegal), but they can and do track people down. LA dodged the first round of college subpeonas and the subpeonas at other colleges caused some of the students at LA to stop, but for the most part people felt like there was some sort of security veil over ucla...</p>
<p>But then came a second round where they not only issued additional subpoenas at previous schools, but also issued additional subpoenas to schools that they overlooked the first round, namely UCLA. They are issuing subpeonas to 7 UCLA students - they released this info towards the end of last year, but did not release the names yet (they're waiting until prob the beginning of this school- what a way to start the year right?). I was a dler before, but I've stopped cold after that announcement. There's nothing stopping them from continuing additional rounds of subpoenas, and just 1 infraction is all they need to slap you with the paperwork. =( I'm realing hoping I'm not one of the unlucky ones.</p>
<p>I'm not saying anything about BitTorrent or DC++ at UCLA. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>They were warning us during orientation though, and made it seem like they could track what we were doing -_-.</p>
<p>Of course they could track what you were doing (just like any other ISP could), but UCLA DOES NOT track your internet usage. However, all traffic does pass through a packet-shaper.</p>
<p>Hrm..I wonder if we can bypass that packet shaper by switching to some other port or something. </p>
<p>As for inter res hall sharing and transfers within the network, that should be perfectly fine right?</p>