<p>Just wondering what Cornell's policy on file sharing is, I download a lot of music at home and I know at most public universities they crack down on this. Anybody know what the deal with that is?</p>
<p>They do it here too, but theres an internal hub called DC++ that you can use without much fear, since its within the Cornell network. The thing is, the content on DC++ is only what is shared by Cornell students. Anything mainstream you can probably find since a lot of people use it, but you’re out of luck if you need something rare that you could otherwise torrent. You can still torrent, but you can get in trouble for it. Also, 10 GB download limit for external things, but DC++ doesn’t count in the 10 GB.</p>
<p>How about downloading from file sharing sites like Rapidshare or Megaupload?</p>
<p>What if you torrent from sites like demonoid where only certain people can get in? I don’t know anything about how you get in trouble for torrenting or anything… so this may be a dumb question.</p>
<p>Limit is actually 15GB/month.</p>
<p>Torrenting is just a bad idea IMO on college campuses. Too easy to get caught.</p>
<p>DC++ is sufficient.</p>
<p>Can you really get anything from DC++? Like a ton of music?</p>
<p>demonoid is far from exclusive…if you use demonoid then dc++ will by far meet your needs. I will admit I still torrent sometimes, but only from more private sites like what.cd</p>
<p>I am pretty clueless about file sharing but I’ve downloaded a handful of hour-long TV shows from megaupload just fine.</p>
<p>@Feral24 - So torrenting from ultra-private sites like What.CD and IPTorrents might be okay every once in a while?</p>
<p>Could you get in trouble for streaming sporting events or downloading them from a site like Rapidshare?</p>
<p>@FreeFocus,</p>
<p>no but it will count against your bandwidth limit. </p>
<p>Well theoretically you could get in trouble for it, but you won’t since A more people torrent so its a bigger target, and B Cornell would either have to monitor the traffic itself which they don’t do, or the copyright holder would have to subpoena rapidshare for the IP addresses on who downloaded the files since there’s no sharing like with torrents, which again isn’t worth the trouble when they can just go after torrent users and easily see the IPs with no subpoena</p>
<p>^ To add to that, what about streaming TV shows from a site like Megavideo, but not actually downloading them? (I usually use Hulu but there are some shows like certain HBO series that I can only get on other sites…)</p>
<p>same thing, the bandwidth will count against you but there’s basically no chance of getting trouble.</p>
<p>@soadquake</p>
<p>All i’m saying is that I haven’t been caught yet…</p>
<p>15GB a month? When I heard that Carnegie Mellon has a 2GB/day limit, I was kinda depressed, but then compared to Cornell, Wow!</p>
<p>wow i envy carnegie mellon! </p>
<p>private torrent tracker sites like waffles and what.cd are pretty safe…i know people who torrent in public computer labs too…</p>
<p>popular tv shows and music and movies will be on the dc++ </p>
<p>i wish they would make youtube and stuff free though :(</p>
<p>What? No youtube?</p>
<p>i meant that i wish they wouldnt count youtube content as part of the 15gb/month you’re allowed :(</p>
<p>ever since youtube went HD it really affects your share</p>
<p>I have been kind of curious about how my usage varies.</p>
<p>last year in a couple of months I had trouble with getting up toward the end of the 15 GB. I watched a couple of hours of Hulu a week, downloaded a dozen or so podcasts a month, and otherwise just browsed around the net.</p>
<p>this month my usage was like 0.5% of the allowed amount, and if anything I have more internet usage (like regularly watching 30-60 mins of high def youtube at a time.) it’s totally baffling to me.</p>
<p>i’m worried about streaming video killing me as well. i’m planning on using slingbox for my tv needs and i watch a lot of tv (i have about 5 or 6 of “my shows”, in addition i usually have one of the cable news nets on as background noise, something that it’d be weird not having). would streaming that much video (slingbox essentially lets you stream your dvr/cable or sat box over the internet so you can watch remotely) be an issue with the limit, especially if coupled with normal internet needs?</p>