<p>Hi,
I’ll be a freshman in the fall and I’m wondering what most current undergrads do for downloading music? Is Brown strict at all about pirating or w/e? </p>
<p>Also, I’m willing to pay for a filesharing program - what do you guys recommend that is safe and won’t slow down my computer? </p>
<p>(I’m sorry if these are dumb questions – please help!)</p>
<p>I'd recommend either Soulseek (slsknet.org) or using bittorrent through a private music site such as OiNK or indietorrents.</p>
<p>download bitlord from downloads.com</p>
<p>after that you can just go to torrentz.com type in what you want, then pick from the things at the top of the list that are the darkest green. i wouldnt recommend downloading anything less than a yellow because it will take forever. also i wouldnt mess with any of the settings that it naturally comes with. but torrenting is definitely the way to go.</p>
<p>i thought brown gives free napster</p>
<p>brown gave free napster this year, but it only works for PCs, and i don't know if they're doing it again this fall.</p>
<p>i used OurTunes (i think it's MyTunes for windows or something), and that way you can download what people in your dorm have in their iTunes libraries. bittorrent stuff is also good, except be careful of how much you download with that, someone on my floor had his internet cut off.</p>
<p>yeah, my friend got a cease and desist letter regarding his bittorrent habits. However, he was downloading like 4 movies a day.</p>
<p>I use ares to download songs and its never been a problem..</p>
<p>you should be fine if you download songs, and the occasional movie.. Beyond that, you might get a letter</p>
<p>the closest thing i've seen anyone of my friends get resembling a warning letter, is during awards season several of them downloaded nearly every movie up for an award and near the end the cable company kept turning their internet on and off. the only reason the cable company was able to even know they were doing anything wrong was the high amount of data flow going on. i don't think it would be possible to receive a cease and desist letter though, becuase what makes torrenting unique is that they don't take down your IP address so thus there is no way to connect a downloader to any of the torrent sites. then again the letter could have come from the cable company that noticed an exhorbitant amount of data flow. either way i wouldnt worry.</p>
<p>What about limewire?</p>
<p>So here's the deal. everyone downloads. some people, such as myself, choose not to share their downloads. however, everyone i know uses OurTunes to rip music and everyone uses limewire just like you do at home. no problems. just to safeguard yourself, make sure the music you download is itself shared music, or so i've heard. in your dorms, all the people in your network can share itunes music with each other as well.</p>