<p>So, pirating (downloading copyrighted materials) in college... Possible? Frowned Upon? Consequences? Not that I do it ... I'm just curious... :-P.</p>
<p>Music company can track it to you and sue you. I think this MIT student got sued for something ridiculous like $200,000. Just use DC++ or some other private network on campus. No no to limewire, kazaa, etc.</p>
<p>A couple of my friends have been caught using BitTorrent. Luckily it wasn't the RIAA...I think they were downloading some NBC shows and NBC just sent a warning letter to the university, who forwarded it to them with a warning that if they're caught again, then they'll be banned permanently from the school network.</p>
<p>Hey RisingSun,</p>
<p>I would suggest you to have a Linux server at home with bitTorent, aMule or any other P2P. Whenever you need some software, a movie or anything else just connect to your server using SSH and request the download. Whenever you are done (a few days later, usually), rename the file to make sure that it says nothing to college network admin and download it using SCP or FTP. In fact, it's a legal way of pirating in college, 'cause your server is private. </p>
<p>By the way, why is your nick RisingSun? Are you from Japan? In my homecountry Japan is called the land of rising sun.</p>
<p>Don't bottom feed - and if you must, use USENET. USENET, FTP are low profile. Torrent and P2P? You ****ers are the reason the RIAA is so up everyone's asses anyway.</p>
<p>If you use bittorrent or Gnutella (limewire) MAKE SURE you use something like PeerGuardian that blocks ip ranges of RIAA and MPAA. Its not a 100% protection but it is decent and better than nothing. However if your school has a usenet server use that. Its faster and releases appear as fast as they do on bittorrent. Its also a hell of a lot safer.</p>
<p>Peerguardian Link: <a href="http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/%5B/url%5D">http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/</a></p>
<p>I pretty much do mIRC for TV Eps, I still use bit torrent for movies but I DL mostly foreign/old stuff that isn't too hot. I also use private FTPs.</p>
<p>My school used to have a Direct Connect hub which was awesome because you know, sharing files over the network sends them a lot faster(you DL at 1+ mb/s) but after 3 years the IT people at my school decided to shut it down.</p>
<p>On a similar topic, I've been wondering this for awhile:</p>
<p>Can you get in trouble for downloading music from friend through AIM or off of things like megaupload and yousendit and sendspace and the like?</p>
<p>Can? Yes. 10K and 10yr per song technically.</p>
<p>Wow, so, the bottom line is to not download anything off of the university's network, because the RIAA's got eyes everywhere, right?</p>
<p>Nope. That's not what the bottom line is at all.</p>
<p>No that is not the bottom line. If you Directly send a file to someone you know then you are 99.99% safe. The ONLY way the RIAA or MPAA can catch you is if you send them the file dircetly (by uploading a piece of the file to one of there servers). They cannot just look at a list of what your sharing and say that you are infringing on there intellectual property because those files might be mislabled and not there work. The **AA cannot just "look" at what you are sending other people on the internet because that would be considered wiretapping and would require a court order. They have to Be the recipients of the file and have to verify that the file is one of theirs by doing a hash check.</p>
<p>If you happen to live in canada then it is 100% legal for you to download off file shareing sites. However it is not legal to upload.</p>
<p>Ah! I see. Thanks for explaining, deathsadvocate. So, as someone might have said earlier, programs like limewire, kazaa, soulseek, etc. are direct targets?</p>
<p>Not quite, friend. The RIAA can monitor those sites, and look at IPs of people who downloaded from places like suprnova that downloaded torrents and sue them as well.</p>
<p>What the hell? I didn't know those share programs were illegal O.O</p>
<p>^ The programs aren't illegal, which is what's giving the RIAA and MPAA a hard time battling file sharing, etc. What is illegal is downloading/uploading copyrighted material.</p>
<p>Feel free to download virtually anything. </p>
<p>For starters, enough of your peers are going to be downloading that zeroing in on individuals will be unfeasible. Unless you're uploading 10 GB a day or downloading some recently released, extremely popular game, you're in the clear.</p>
<p>In the unlikely case of a complaint, your university will most likely protect you. You might get a stern lecture and possibly have access to the network revoked for a day or two, but that's about it. </p>
<p>In fact, it's a hundred times more safe to pirate at a university than at home.</p>
<p>ok gracielegend stop trolling. no university in the world is going to protect you.</p>
<p>to the others, you can find all the software/music you want within the students, you just have to ask. also browse the campus network for shared files. there is really no need to download anything at a risk..</p>
<p>ftp and p2p is slow, bt is often blocked i hear, http is the way to go</p>
<p>How safe are private torrent sites? I use oink.me.uk, and it's AMAZING (basically, releases come out 1-3 months before they're due). Since it's closed registration, is it any safer?</p>