<p>Do colleges monitoring where you go on the internet. Basically, is it alright to look at porn on the internet? As long as you're going on legal sites and you're 18yrs old it's legal correct? Most of my friends say they watch porn on their computer or download it from Limewire etc, but is it alright to go to websites online? </p>
<p>Could you get in trouble from going on porn sites?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I don't know of any college that monitors internet activity to that degree.</p>
<p>Bandwith, definitely. But not content.</p>
<p>creepy.</p>
<p>10 char</p>
<p>depends on the university. check the student code of conduct and know that if it's in there, they can enforce it. likely, though, they will only enforce it in public areas where someone might see it and complain (i.e., if a lab tech in the library walks over and sees it glaring in his face, he might be required to make note of it and you could get a letter from Student Life). While universities have the ability to monitor everything across their network (and may even be able to remote desktop into any running computer on the network that is owned by the university -- including laptops you rent or lease from them), it is unlikely they are going to be monitoring things that closely most of the time (unless there is prior reason to do so in a specific situation)</p>
<p>No one would go to their school if porn was banned. Is it true that some schools bust you for using things such as limewire?</p>
<p>^yup. or they'll see what you are downloading sometimes because my friend got busted for downloading music by the RIAA.</p>
<p>I would get peer guardian... your server knows you are doing something, just dunno exactly what you are downloading/doing. I use it for torrents although I download foreign shows mostly not music or.. your case porn. And if you are on incognito mode on google that might come in handy too?</p>
<p>Or the other option, instead of what uyulove has suggested would be to use private trackers and the latest version of uTorrent, which will move data in a UDP instead of TCP. Since the protocol is, among other things, used for gaming, they probably won't limit that, so long as your bandwidth usage is within reason.</p>
<p>99% of schools don't block any legal content. The ones that do are farily obvious (very conservative religious schools and maybe the academies, but I'm not sure about the academies.) Some DO track/block things like torrents or p2p mostly due to bandwidth issues. So yes, you can look at all the porn you'd like, although you shouldn't be getting it from limewire (you're not in 10th grade anymore buddy) and if you download too much they'll throttle you/cut you off for using too much bandwidth, but then you've got bigger problems I think.</p>
<p>My college blocked torrent websites and any torrent activity, but that's about it.</p>
<p>PlattsburghLoser: torrents and torrent activity are not blocked are our school. what our school does is just limit the amount of activity of "P2P" packets. torrents do work here though. whether you know how to get it to work is a different story, but they do indeed work.</p>
<p>Didn't some kid at Columbia get busted for using/selling P2P music on campus or was it somewhere else?</p>
<p>Kids everywhere get busted for that, but that's the RIAA busting them, not the school.</p>
<p>My network blocks torrents. I know there are ways around this... but, it's not worth the risk.</p>
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PlattsburghLoser: torrents and torrent activity are not blocked are our school. what our school does is just limit the amount of activity of "P2P" packets. torrents do work here though. whether you know how to get it to work is a different story, but they do indeed work.
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<p>I meant at SUNY Plattsburgh, not Fordham, I'm still used to calling it "my" school. I've never actually tried using torrent at Fordham before, I'm guessing it won't work, though?</p>
<p>I always used this Chinese site for my downloading needs since most people outside of China don't know it exists and can't block it. It worked at SUNY at least.</p>
<p>You don't get in trouble for porn at my school, but check your school's terms of service. I doubt it, though. You <em>do</em> get in trouble for downloading illegal things. Like music and movies.</p>
<p>yeah, my big state school monitors bandwidth, not content.
also, porn isn't illegal (although whether it should be is kind of debatable), unless you're into reallyyy sketchy stuff..</p>
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also, porn isn't illegal (although whether it should be is kind of debatable), unless you're into reallyyy sketchy stuff..
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<p>Debatable? I suppose for religious fundamentalists who misunderstand the 1st Amendment it is. But for the rest of us, this is not really something fit to argue about. Perhaps some suggest greater limits than presently exist. But even the Supreme Court appreciates that generally speaking, pornography is protected.</p>
<p>Regarding what is "reallyyy sketchy" and potentially illegal, the list is damn short. In all 50 states, anything with a minor (by US definitions, as some European countries have lower ages where one can legally appear in such videos) is criminal to possess. Beyond that, nothing is nationally banned. Even beastiality as an action is legal in some states, and as material owned is naturally legal. Obscene material, which can only be deemed so on a communal basis through court examination, and is thus a handful of titles at the very most in a select few places, is still legal to possess, just not purchase, distribute, ect. </p>
<p>So pretty much anything the OP could be concerned with is, as a matter of fact, legal. Now, if he obtains it in violation of copyright law, then that is another issue. But given DMCA provisions, he can legally stream, just not download, copyrighted material. Thus, getting his fill from tube sites rather than torrents or limewire or whatever other crap people use will leave him well positioned. Or, of course, he could just pay, as people used to do. </p>
<p>I state this all because people should (1) be informed of their legal rights and (2) thus act accordingly, rather than live in fear that they will face charges for completely reasonable actions. After all, we don't live in the UK, where the definition of material that is potentially illegal becomes epically massive as of 2009 thanks to a fairly recently passed law.</p>
<p>A student at S's Catholic university just went to prison for child porn on the University system. Good riddance!</p>
<p>^ oh dear... that must have been embarrassing for all parties involved;;</p>
<p>i'm just really morally opposed to porn--not because i'm a fundamentalist christian (haha probably the farthest from it) but because i think it ultimately hurts women. it degrades and objectifies them and distorts men's perceptions of them.</p>
<p>no, i don't really think it should be illegal. i just think men should realize how harmful pornography is and stop using it (and thus destroy the industry).</p>