<p>Hi
im a freshman at UT in the fall of 2010
and i was wondering where can i safely download music and movies etc without getting caught.</p>
<p>i usually use megaupload, rapidshare, mediafire
are those okay??</p>
<p>There are a few threads on this already, but the short answer is: yes, you can.</p>
<p>As long as it’s not open p2p (public bittorrent, etc), it’s okay right?</p>
<p>They do monitor it. I’ve gotten warnings in the past when it was p2p (specifically torrents), but there are a <em>few</em> private p2p that function within the university. Though chances of finding it are slim, since they don’t want to get caught.</p>
<p>Stay away from public trackers like The Priate Bay, Mininova, or w/e people are using these days. Those are dangerous to use at home, at school, etc. Either use private trackers, or find some sort of direct download option.</p>
<p>@above^ Really? There are warnings? I always thought the policy was “we don’t look to catch you, but we won’t help you if you get caught”. I am a VERY heavy traffic user, using all of my weekly allotted 20GB last year, and never got warnings. This year I will do the same with my 50GB.</p>
<p>but downloading is not a good idea since u may be using too much of ur memory, once u reach that limit, u’ll be moved to secondary server.</p>
<p>my suggestion to u is, go home once in a while and do ur good stuff there.</p>
<p>while you may use up all your bandwidth on downloading, you can buy more bandwidth AND all the UT sites will still load on your computer at normal speed.</p>
<p>If you’re a big downloader like me, just get a higher tier. Last year I got 20GB, and this year I was planning on getting the 40GB. But ITS just sent out an email today about upgrading the plans for the same prices! They did this last year too.</p>
<p>Now the plans are:
Tier I: 5 GB/week (up from 4 GB/week)
Tier II: 25 GB/week (up from 20 GB/week)
Tier III: 50 GB/week (up from 40 GB/week)
Tier IIII: 75 GB/week (up from 60 GB/week)</p>
<p>Tier 1 is perfectly fine for 90% of users, and tier II is useful if you occasionally download a few HD movies. I had it last year. This year though I am going with Tier III. I am unsure who uses the 4th tier, since I’ve never known anybody to buy it.</p>
<p>@ Why Two Kay</p>
<p>Of all the things that I (may have) downloaded, you know what did me in?? A f-ing answer guide to the calc book for 408C. ■■■</p>
<p>Though all I had to do was delete and they told me that they’d be watching me. o_0</p>
<p>i use [url=<a href=“http://www.zippysharemp3.com%5Dwww.zippysharemp3.com%5B/url”>http://www.zippysharemp3.com]www.zippysharemp3.com[/url</a>] to download music
i likemostly rap and dance music for me</p>
<p>you dont have to download a program like limewire, just grab songs from the internet
free= good :)</p>
<p>Yeah they monitor it and you can get in trouble.</p>
<p>I know people who got huge fines for it last year.</p>
<p>Tier 1 is DEFINITELY not enough…
I regularly use FBook, watch videos on Hulu, listen to Pandora, and it drains easily within a day…</p>
<p>Usenet+newsgroup binaries+ssl+resnet = 10MB/s of win</p>
<p>Resnet is really the only thing I miss about the dorms.</p>
<p>Try Spotify… it’s 100% legal and does the job.</p>