<p>can you get away with p2p file sharing programs at cmu? i use bittorrent for a lot of music downloads, and i was wondering if using torrents were permissible...</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>torrents are not a good idea on campus, but dc++ can be used to share and access pretty much anything one could want across the school network…</p>
<p>Ah that sucks… here i thought i could finally start torrenting again after my ISP disallowed it. Oh well I guess i’ll stick with XDCC.</p>
<p>i truly don’t see there being much that you could really want (other than perhaps obscure non-anime porn) that wouldn’t be available here. really, there are terabytes of music, movies, video games, operating systems, television shows, software packages, and electronic books/textbooks. and none of it is measured as part of your bandwidth quota</p>
<p>DC++ and dtella are what you need to file share over CMU’s network. I did it all the time last year. </p>
<p>Torrenting is not impossible. My roommate did it alot and when he exceeded his bandwidth (many many times), he was banned from the network but changed his MAC address. there’s really nothing you can’t do. :)</p>
<p>i torrented occasionally on campus and was okay. mostly from private trackers. i think the key is to do it infrequently and not upload at all. most of the time you can find stuff on dtella but for scene music releases dtella might not have the stuff youre looking for. you can always use sites like sordo for music too.</p>