<p>Another important thing:</p>
<p>Could you get into trouble for downloading foreign movies and songs off bittorrent and emule? thanks.</p>
<p>Same amount of trouble you could get in for downloading Hollywood movies and songs.</p>
<p>yeah, does peerguardian work?</p>
<p>actual Foreign Files differ, depending on what country, most are more lenient compared to Copyrights here</p>
<p>"Music licensing agreements vary from distributor to distributor and from country to country."</p>
<p>thanks guys. Sounds like it's best to just stay out of it in college.</p>
<p>Would the RIAA be willing or able to go after people who are downloading songs copyrighted by record companies not part of the RIAA?</p>
<p>no no no stop worrying everyone</p>
<p>you aren't going to get in trouble... i think</p>
<p>Lots of people speed on the highway. Some drivers even have radar dectectors. Most people aren't caught. Even if you get caught, you get a ticket, pay a fine and have your insurance jacked up for a couple of years until your points go away.</p>
<p>Many students download copyrighted material. Most aren't caught. But, if you are caught, this goes into your university file which does not "go away" after a couple of years. You don't go before a traffic judge, you are charged in Federal Court for violating a Federal statue (a felony). Should you decide to fight the charges, your name will appear in the Justice Department's database. </p>
<p>Almost all students charged will settle out of court (pay a big fine). If you're in the Liberal Arts, a possible felony conviction may not be a big deal. If you want to become a lawyer, a doctor or enter a profession with an ethics committee, a felony conviction is a big deal. </p>
<p>Most CCer's spend a great deal of time burnishing their academic resume and getting high ACT/SAT scores. Do you really want to
jeopardize that effort by downloading a blurry copy of "Star Wars"?</p>
<p>Well, at our school, they tell you to uninstall all P2P clients before coming. And when you're here, they use packet shaping equipment to limit P2P throughput as much as possible.</p>
<p>Through out the year, all students that i knew who were caught downloading were cause using bit torrent. They were downloading both music and movies. Internet2 aka I2Hub, is a DC++ program. It is based off DC++. File sharing hubs are illegal. Internet2 has an end user license agreement keeping them from any trouble. So if you get caught, you aren't protected. At the end of last year, many students where caught using I2Hub. I2Hub is a public network/program/hub. By using it, you are putting everything on your computer public, EVEN IF YOU DON'T SHARE IT. Meaning that someone can find out who you are, unless you have your name taken completely off your computer (which is incredibly hard with your registry and school work). It is rumorred that the RIAA has hired students to catch fellow students downloading. If the RIAA gets your IP, that's it. Your IP address is specific to your room. The RIAA also released information on a new way of catching copyright infringers. Everytime you hash data, you leave a trace (ie name) on it. They have recently caught people with data that they traced to the illegal days of Napster. Overall, it's just not worth the risk. It is highly recommended you buy it due to the fact that the RIAA is specifically targeting "safe havens" such as I2Hub. Also, take into consideration, the RIAA knows about I2Hub, being the reason I2Hub is down every so often due to the need for them to change servers. They are on the run, if I2Hub goes down, you will go down with them. Do realize that what I'm telling you is only touching the surface.</p>
<p>why not just connect via proxy?</p>
<p>After doing some more research on this, I have realized that perhaps the question I asked before wasn't clear enough. I think my case is a little different from others because I do not use p2p programs to download songs and movies copyrighted by RIAA and MPAA. In fact, I only download stuff that are made by foreign artists/groups from East Asian countries that has nothing to do with RIAA, MPAA, or any of those American associations. Is getting caught and getting into trouble still part of my concern in this case? Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks a lot.</p>
<p>Much of the music from Asia is copyrighted by the same companies that are in the RIAA; these record companies are multinational companies and are certainly not companies that do business only in the US. Based on information from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_record_labels%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_record_labels</a>, Sony/BMG is Japanese/German, Universal is French, EMI is British, and Warner is American. Together, they control about 70% of the world music market. In short, you should still be afraid of the RIAA.</p>
<p>Thanks, stele32, for such a valuable info. Do you or anybody else know if the same thing is true for MPAA and others?</p>
<p>Well, what if you download foreign music that really isn't affiliated with RIAA and don't use any P2P clients to get them?</p>
<p>* Internet2 aka I2Hub, is a DC++ program. *</p>
<p>That's not quite correct - I2hub and Internet2 are completely separate entities. I2Hub is a file-sharing client that uses Internet2. Internet2 is a completely separate consortium from the internet most people use. It is a private high-speed network (think OC-48 connections and faster) that connects only 207 research universities (and other major research institutions). Its main purpose is for those institutions to be able to share data and other information at high rates of speed, and to develop new technologies for the internet. This is why I2Hub has been so difficult for the RIAA to get to - it uses a private network.</p>
<p>"This is why I2Hub has been so difficult for the RIAA to get to - it uses a private network."</p>
<p>So this article from PCWorld that I posted on page one of this thread is all wet?</p>
<p>The chances of getting caught using p2p networks in your own home is a lot less than using them at college, right? Does the RIAA go after home users like they do students at college?</p>