<p>At orientation they were very stern about saying that we cannottttt use any form of a music downloading application, like Limewire. I was just curious, does everyone follow this rule?</p>
<p>With any rule some people will follow it and others won’t. </p>
<p>I really wouldn’t recommend doing it on the UD network.</p>
<p>It is easy for places like the RIAA to target college networks because they are large and host a large portion of the illegal file sharers.</p>
<p>If you get caught, you will not only face the financial repercussions, but you will also face penalties within the UD judicial system and could face suspension.</p>
<p>^ Yes. Despite anarchistic tendencies that argue to the contrary, I think using the UD network for downloading music would be foolish. (Ya know, there’s a Starbucks on Main Street.)</p>
<p>is it a crime to have it on my computer at all while im on the network?</p>
<p>I remember them saying that but that’s ridiculous. As long as you are not running it and its not connecting to the internet, you won’t have any problems.</p>
<p>Be advised that the recording industry has a company that scours the internet via Limewire and other file sharing services looking for computers sharing music. I forgot the name. They take a pic of your computer and how many files you are sharing, then trace the IP address. You are still anonymous to them. All they have is UDel site. They will then contact Udel and inform them that you are using the Udel server to illegally share files. Udel doesn’t want to get involved, and sanctions you to protect themselves. That may not be the end of it all.
You may get yet another letter forwarded to you from RIAA advising you that if you don’t pay their extortion fee in like 10 days they will commence action against you in Federal Court for $750 per song made available. They don’t care how many songs are being shared at that time, they deal with how many songs are being made available to share, big difference as many students have thousands of songs on their computers and Limewire shares how many songs online . Some schools have fought to protect the student’s privacy, some have not. Udel has been know to acquiesce. Any warnings you get from Udel are ways that they have to protect the school from getting involved. Lots of websites dedicated to this situation.</p>
<p>Ok thanks guys you’ve been helpful. I mean, I’m not looking to break rules and I won’t cause a scene I’ll just really miss using limewire. But, i wanted to specify, I wouldn’t be sharing the files, just downloading. I’m guessing thats still not too appealing to Delaware.</p>