<p>Is it even legal in the US? I NEED limewire to download music (for free, of course). My cuz in the UK says that it's banned at his university and there's a 100 pound fine if you're caught using it. What abt Cornell??</p>
<p>Probably not. I know at MIT, they lock your account right away when they find out. Cornell probably is the same.</p>
<p>So i guess i gotta download as much as i can before coming to cornell.</p>
<p>some campuses have thier own download systems peer to peer with in the college</p>
<p>i heard from a current student that the university has some sort of partnership ?? that allows free music downloading. so now my prospective boston friends are reserving songs from me.</p>
<p>You can do whatever you want; there are no penalties for limewire/etc. However, on campus it is usually MUCH better to use a program called DC++ that keeps all the file transfers over the local network - meaning that you get hugely fast transfer rates. You can d/l a whole movie that only one other person on the whole network has in ~10 minutes.</p>
<p>^^^ OMG :eek: . THAT's SOOOO COOL. Here, it takes me 10 minutes on average to download a song.</p>
<p>On DC++ songs finish in a second or two...</p>
<p>:eek: one second????????? I've only had those download speeds in my dreams...</p>
<p>dude thats because the files are on the local network so of course its a lot faster than downloading from the internet. However, I'm surprised that universities have such an open stance to file sharing.</p>
<p>I think someone talked about how you get a subscription to Napster. I'm not positive though.</p>
<p>foodisgood: The reason is that whether their students download or not is inconsequential to them. What they do care about is if corporations contact them with students' names and subpoenas. If you use limewire or bittorrent or any program where you're easily identified, then you will get caught. Direct Connect/DC++ is a much better solution as everything is in campus and even though the college knows what you're doing (an important pointthey know everything), it doesn't affect them. Also, if you want to be on the safe side, you can just iTunes music sharing feature everyone on your subnet can stream each others' music, but not download it. Since you're almost always on the network, the difference is nominal.</p>
<p>yeah, DC++ is awesome. It's campus only, which really cuts down on malicious/spyware stuff. It also gives you blazing speeds...as said, 5 second song downloads and 10 minute feature films. There are also a lot of programs ranging from photoshop and GTA San Andreas. There's a very good selection on DC++.</p>
<p>Cornell doesn't ban other things to my knowledge, but they're inferior in terms of both speed and quality of content. Also, you are reminded that it is illegal to get pirated movies/music/programs.</p>
<p>iTunes shared music streaming is also great.</p>
<p>Napster: free subscription to napster for all students. Plain napster...not napster lite, or napster togo. This means you can download almost all of the 1.5 million song + sized library available on napster (there are a few bands that require you to buy songs) for a monthly "rental" or "subscription" fee that cornell pays for. You can't burn the songs to disk or put them on your ipod, unless you rerecord them from your sound card's analog output with a program like tunebite (available on DC++ heheh), as the songs have DRM protection. This is still great, though, because it's like having an infinitely big stereosystem with a vast library in your room, or wherever you take your computer. You can even stream to save harddrive space, but this will ultimately end in you exceeding your 2GB int*er-network bandwidth limit. However, at a monthly price of $1.50*X-$3.00, where X is the number of gigabytes you use in a month (i.e. your first 2GBs are free). Note that since DC++is intra*-network, nothing downloaded on DC++ will EVER count toward your bandwidth limit.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cit.cornell.edu/resnet/policy/%5B/url%5D">http://www.cit.cornell.edu/resnet/policy/</a> this website is all about cornell's internet service policy</p>
<p>haha yeah DC++ is just about the only thing that people at Cornell use.. Cornell has its own DC++ hub and therefore the speeds are insane. Like someone said before songs in a few seconds and movies in 10-15 minutes. And i think that you do get a napster subscription but DC++ is still better..</p>
<p>oh yeah..if you get crazy viruses on your computer the Cornell tech guys will know and will cut off your interent service it happened to one of my friends so i had to format her computer. But other than that they dont care what you do they just dont want their system to get effed up</p>
<p>Yeah...I think almost all the operators of the DC++ hub actually WORK for CIT (Cornell Information Technologies). Cornell really doesn't care unless you share their stuff (i.e. the Jon Stewart performance from last year...some people got in trouble for distributing a video of it).</p>
<p>As long as you only use bittorent for programs/games (which I've yet to hear of people getting sued for downloading), you're in the clear. Other than programs/games, I don't even know why you wouldn't want to use DC - it is faster, more reliable and less risky than any other p2p software.</p>
<p>exactly...it really beats all the competition in almost every way.</p>
<p>i remember hanging out with my bro, deciding to dl a family guy episode after we came back from a frat party, and getting to watch it in like 5 minutes.</p>