<p>Actually they CAN monitor it, as long as a student is a mole.</p>
<p>Torrenting is perfectly safe, as long as you know where to get it from.</p>
<p>Yeah DC++ is good. Speeds on north are limited to 1.13 MB/sec from what I remember (which is still reaallly fast imo). You might be disappointed if you’re looking for some obscure film or band because the available content on the network is limited to what is being shared by a group of ~500 Cornell students.</p>
<p>In response to what lollerpants said about knowing where to get torrents from, I sort of encountered problems last year with private trackers (which, seemingly, would be smarter because it’s more difficult for the RIAA to get your info) that had ratio limits, considering the fact that something about the Cornell network/firewalls reeeeeally prevented me from being able to seed things I downloaded. Just something to think about/watch out for–at home I would keep Azureus or Transmission or whatever open all the time and not have ratio problems, but once I got to Cornell it became an issue.</p>
<p>I’ve been over the limit every month after the first 2 weeks lol</p>
<p>That is why you are a good seeder at home, so you can spam in Cornell, Young Padawan.</p>
<p>I went a few dollars over most months. Compared to the cost of tuition it wasn’t really a big deal.</p>
<p>DC++ is an internal network and thus would be difficult for the RIAA to monitor. Not impossible, but more than likely not worth their trouble.</p>
<p>indigo, thats what i’m worried about. i’m a member of 3 private trackers, and i have amazing ratios on all of them. i guess if i just park my account on all 3 and periodically log onto them, i’ll be fine. but i guess i’m not downloading anything either.</p>
<p>i just got to cornell and i tried to set up DC ++ but it doesn’t seem to work, will i have to wait till o-week?</p>
<p>I’m guessing the people who run it aren’t on campus yet, it’ll probably be up sometime during O-week.</p>
<p>torrenting isn’t safe - I had a friend get caught sharing a crack with torrents…He had to take the class/pay like $40 to cornell. Not very bad, but it was only a crack. </p>
<p>also, torrenting really burns through those gigs. </p>
<p>I watched basketball all season on my computer - tons of games, and tv etc online, and I didn’t run over. The only time I ran over was when the limit was 5 gigs…and I did it a few times. Now that it’s 10 - much more difficult to run over.</p>
<p>yeah, you are much safer using DC++ than torrenting. if Cornell catches you torrenting you sometimes have to pay a small fee and then take a stupid course about internet piracy and copyright. some of my friends had to do this and they all said it was an incredible pain.</p>
<p>mikeyc’s post is very accurate on this subject.</p>
<p>does xbox live eat up a lot of the download limit, not downloading demos/videos, but playing online like halo or something of that sort?</p>
<p>that doesn’t take up that much. about 25 MB/hour if you don’t host.</p>
<p>Where did you watch basketball games online? I’m a huge cleveland cavaliers (and NBA in general) fan and will be suffering from serious withdrawal if I miss all those games not broadcasted on national tv but only on fsn.</p>
<p>I need MATLAB for computer science, and I don’t know whether I should torrent it now, or wait until I get to Cornell and hope it’s available on DC++.</p>
<p>Indigo451 said that he or she torrented something prior to going to Ithaca, but that once there, the download/software didn’t work anymore. In this case I might as well just wait and hope it’s on DC++ to avoid losing the software, getting caught etc. But then again if it’s not on the peer to peer, I have to pay for it. </p>
<p>What do you guys think?</p>
<p>Just FYI–as of August, the new limit per month is 15 GB.</p>
<p>Shalala – that’s not what I’m talking about at all. I was just saying that while you can seed torrents at home, you kind of can’t (or the upload speeds are suuuper slow) at Cornell because of firewalls and stuff. At home, port forwarding etc would allow me to seed and maintain a good ratio on private trackers, but since you can’t exactly change Cornell’s firewall and network settings, maintaining a good ratio on private trackers becomes difficult.</p>
<p>I’ve had absolutely no problems using software that I’ve downloaded via torrent at school.</p>
<p>@generalyao -
Basketball - I’m a college ball fan (unc!), but I just watched games either on cbs online or sometimes people would stream the games from their homes online. A lot of games aren’t on TV - so even if you can reserve/get a TV when you want, the computer is sometimes your only option. Not sure if NBA is the same way, but pretty sure it would be.</p>
<p>MATLAB is on DC++</p>