<p>Does anyone know if CMU has such a program allowing students to download music for free or minimal costs?</p>
<p>Not as far as I know of, and several CMU students have been subpoenaed by the RIAA (1-2 years ago, I believe). You can check out DVDs from the library with your ID card.</p>
<p>Whoa, is there a good selection of movies</p>
<p>Also- does that mean that all downloading is blocked on the wireless at CMU?</p>
<p>Is DC++ used by many at cmu?</p>
<p>one word:
cmuConnect</p>
<p>No, downloading isn't blocked. Something about i2hub not working anymore, though...</p>
<p>Go to <a href="http://cameo.library.cmu.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://cameo.library.cmu.edu/</a> and do an advanced search on DVDs available at circdesk, and the movies that come up should be the 'recreational DVDs' you can check out for 3 days (no renewals). Favorites like family guy are almost continually checked out, though.</p>
<p>cmuConnect is the new i2hub</p>
<p>Gnutella and BitTorrent work fine (and are damn fast on a good day). You don't really need anything else.</p>
<p>im assuming CMUConnect is a file sharing app similar to dc++ and mIRC. how do you access it though? is there a link for it?</p>
<p>Do they monitor file transfers within campus or only if you use limewire or something like that?</p>
<p>torrents are risky since u can't stop the uploads....limewire should be the safest...but gnutella sucks big time!</p>
<p>dexter87: actually, you can stop uploads.</p>
<p>Havaldaar: they monitor transfers into and out of the network. the beauty of cmuconnect is that you're trading with people on the network so it doesn't hurt your overall bandwidth usage.</p>
<p>Aaah right.</p>
<p>The link isn't quite working for me (I think they archived the article), but if it's a campus-wide subscription to a [legal] music/movie downloading service, I can tell you we don't have one now, but there are some students that are trying to get campus computing to consider Rukus (sp?) that provides a legal way to get your music and movies. Unfortunately, I don't think they've been too successful yet.</p>
<p>supposedly rukus is horrid at best, as it a. sucks, b. only supports Windows, and then only Internet Explorer, and c. its only streaming, or WMA (yes WITH DRM) files.</p>
<p>I'd probably get angry if that were an included student fee.</p>
<p>Yeah, that'd never fly with CMU. With 20% of the students on macs and 60% of people who visit the Tartan's website using Firefox, no one would be happy.</p>
<p>does anyone have the connection information for cmuconnect?</p>