<p>Way to keep it low profile guy.</p>
<p>You should edit the name out of that</p>
<p>There's no revealing evidence there, genius. Oink's pretty well known among torrent sites--it's one of the biggest music torrent sites online.
Also, note the "CLOSED REGISTRATION" part. You can't just go to the site and sign up. You need to be invited, so where's the daner in posting a site that a lot of people know about?</p>
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ok gracielegend stop trolling. no university in the world is going to protect you.
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<p>Okay mercurysquad, stop being a retarded moron that posts utterly false garbage on random Internet threads. </p>
<p>Honestly, how stupid and out of touch with reality are you? Do you get a power trip from inventing random things and then posting them online? Do you even GO to an American university? Your location states Germany. </p>
<p>A university that will protect you? Try Caltech, where I go to school. Or Berkeley. Or MIT. I have yet to hear of a college where the school administration won't shield you from possible prosecution. </p>
<p>And downloading from other students might sound a great idea, until you realize that frequently they won't have the material you're looking for.</p>
<p>At Penn State, where my son is a student, the school has a deal with Napster, I believe, so the kids can download anything to their computers but not MP3s.
GracieLegend: They might try to protect you from prosecution but you may be punished by having your access revoked, permanently</p>
<p>Even if my school threw napster songs at me, I'd ignore them.</p>
<p>People use p2p because DRM sucks. If I pay for a song, I sure as hell don't want to be told where I can and can't use it, sorry.</p>
<p>spinner- </p>
<p>I was primarily responding to whoever said that one would get prosecuted for this, which is ridiculous. Maybe if one pirated from a private home, then yes, they could conceivably be prosecuted. </p>
<p>But at a college? Just like there are allowances for alcohol and drugs at university, there are even bigger allowances for Internet piracy. How can you sue one individual when hundreds or thousands are doing the same thing? </p>
<p>Unless the guy or girl is uploading dozens of GBs per day, it's not going to happen. (Most schools don't even care what the hell you download. They only care about uploads.)</p>
<p>As for having access permanently revoked, it hasn't happened in any instance that I'm aware of. (Regardless of whether admin threatened this or not) Usually, after apoligizing and promising not to do it again, the administration will give a student access back after a week maximum. </p>
<p>At that point, the student should simply learn from their mistakes, so as not to get caught next time.</p>
<p>Pirating across a super fast Internet connection that allows you to download up to 1 MB/sec is one of the great joys of attending college. It's as essential to the college experience as drinking alcohol at a party, or listening to loud music 24/7.</p>
<p>As a famous sponge would say:</p>
<p>"Good luck with that!"</p>
<p>gracie can you get some sort of an official or semi official statement or a document or link which says your university (or the ones you referred to) will protect/shield students if and when they get prosecuted for piracy? because, for example, this</a> page says totally the opposite -
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Caltech will not support or condone the activities listed below:
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<p>Illegal distribution of any copyrighted material
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<p>Response to unacceptable activities :
Caltech will work in cooperation with law enforcement agencies when a crime is committed...
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<p>But in any case, it's great that you are encouraging people to use the campus network for software/music piracy under the assurace that the university will protect us. Since you have not given any example, let me tell you that I have witnessed such a thing. University was sent legal notice, and they co-operated and banned p2p software. After that many students had their internet turned off for entire semesters for using limewire/bittorrent etc.</p>
<p>Not to say you CANT download stuff over campus networks, it's just that no one should be under the illusion that your university will protect you.</p>
<p>Firstly, is there something wrong with, you know, actually purchasing your music and movies?</p>
<p>Secondly, many college students have been prosecuted by the RIAA for illegally sharing music. Of course, your odds of getting caught are low and you're unlikely to be caught if you're careful about how you go about it (i.e. what programs/methods you use)--but I wouldn't bank on it.</p>
<p>I personally know several people who have received cease and desist letters and, as the links below show, there have been several students at my school who have been prosecuted and had to settle (paying amounts up to $4,000).</p>
<p>As for your school protecting you--I would like to see a source stating that, myself. As the first link below mentions, BU will do what they can to fight a subpeona forcing them to release the names of the students associated with each IP address; however, that is the extent of their involvement--once you're caught, you're on your own.</p>
<p>mercurysquad- </p>
<p>Are you seriously this much of a dolt? I'm having a hard time fathoming how anyone can be this stupid. There's a large difference between official campus policy and what actually occurs when a student breaks a certain "rule", AS ANYONE THAT'S EVER GONE TO A COLLEGE CAN TELL YOU.</p>
<p>Officially, Caltech "will not support or condone" underage drinking either. In reality, it's tolerated as long as it doesn't get out of hand.</p>
<p>Same thing with Internet piracy.</p>
<p>ryanbis-</p>
<p>Yes, there's a major problem with that. I dont have tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend on DVDs, movies, music, books, and games. </p>
<p>Im hardly exaggerating either. Theres an arcade library of about 350+ games that you can download. Each of these games costs around $20. One download, and you save over $7,000.</p>
<p>A single book library download could easily save one $10,000+.</p>
<p>Also, considering that I like to watch at least two movies every day, plus a fair bit of boxing, mixed martial arts (UFC, Pride, etc.), K-1 kickboxing, and Abu Dhabi Combat Club, one can easily see how this would become more expensive than a coke habit.</p>
<p>I generally avoid any downloads whatsoever at home. However, one of the thrills of college is drinking beer while listening to loud, obnoxious music through ones headphones while playing Internet poker/trendy computer games, and simultaneously watching two professional fighters beat the hell out of one another. </p>
<p>Thats heaven right there.</p>
<p>"Yes, there's a major problem with that. I dont have tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend on DVDs, movies, music, books, and games. "</p>
<p>Are you serious? You think that "not having the money" justifies stealing? It's not a question of how much money it saves, it's a question of whether or not you have the RIGHT to do it. You're profiting from someone else's hard work without compensating them for it.</p>
<p>ryanbis: It's not stealing, it's copyright infringement.</p>
<p>ryanbis-</p>
<p>Your antiquated view on "stealing" is the same argument record companies once cited against playing music on radio stations, or movie productions used against showing films on television. </p>
<p>Unfortunately for people like yourself, there are tens of millions of people worldwide that are "stealing" in one form or another. (Trust me, it's a lot more popular and widespread in other countries)</p>
<p>Human nature simply doesn't work in the way you would like.</p>
<p>GracieLegend, although I understand your point, I refuse to correspond with you anymore.</p>
<p>Why do you resort to name-calling? Can't you, for life sake, argue like an adult?? You act like you're the only one who knows something. Just fix your attitude first before you argue because honestly, you are going to get in trouble real soon because of the way you talk.</p>
<p>You might have a point, and the other person might be insisting that he/she is correct but there really is no reason to talk like that (I won't quote you, you know already). Be a little more polite.</p>
<p>Ciao.</p>
<p>Take a look at some of his posts...he's clearly a troll, he doesn't make much sense and is not worth anyone's time.</p>
<p>mercurysquad-</p>
<p>At least you were honest enough to concede defeat. After all, you'd have to be downright foolish to argue with a Caltech student about Caltech rules and regulations when you know nothing of the school. </p>
<p>Oh, wait...</p>
<p>ryanbis-</p>
<p>I feel sorry for you. You'll never know what it feels like to have access to thousands of movies, books, games, and DVDs for free. It's an incredible feeling, man. Trust me.</p>
<p>You're basically punishing yourself here, just like the monks that flagellated themselves in the 1300's, denying themselves basic human comforts like a home, shoes, more than one pair of clothes, or taking showers more often than once per year. </p>
<p>Nowadays, we laugh and feel sorry for these dudes being too foolish to take advantage of their society's benefits.</p>
<p>I feel sorry for you.</p>
<p>GracieLegend, are you telling me you actually trust the integrity of the pirated software (games) you obtain?</p>
<p>jspsh-</p>
<p>Uh, what do you mean?</p>
<p>I'm saying that, how do you manage to trust pirated software? How do you know that software is not altered in a form that breaches the security of your system? How do you know that software doesn't install malware on your machine?</p>
<p>jspsh-</p>
<p>You're absolutely correct, and it's the main thing I've always worried about whenever downloaded something.</p>
<p>There's really no way to cut this risk out completely. However, here are a few precautions that help a lot;</p>
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<li><p>Installing good anti-virus software helps a lot.</p></li>
<li><p>Knowing which sites are more trustworthy and well-known than others will also help avert a number of potential problems.</p></li>
<li><p>You have a high chance of getting malware installed when visiting a certain website or clicking on a link to an image or video. To my knowledge, I've never gotten a virus or trojan from my downloads. </p></li>
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<p>I've had at least 5 unique instances where I've gotten viruses or trojans from some random website.</p>