<p>Is UCSD big on catching people for downloading things?</p>
<p>yes… I believe every UC is (if not every college). I don’t have any experience personally but my sister went to UCI and a few students in her dorm were caught multiple times for attempting to download music, movies, etc</p>
<p>From what I hear, sites like megaupload and rapidshare work just fine, at least in moderation. I would avoid torrenting though, unless you’re using private trackers.</p>
<p>I torrented, and used Limewire last year and I was fine. Keep it to a limit, and you probably won’t get caught. If you’re torrenting several albums, movies, and tv shows all at once in a day, then you’ll probably get caught.</p>
<p>This one guy on my floor got sued last year, but he was torrenting nearly a terrabyte of data every day…</p>
<p>well i wouldn’t torrent at all if i were u. The risk isn’t worth it at all. My friend last year couldn’t resist the temptation of torrenting at 10megabit/s so he finally cracked and torrented a movie. Five minutes after he started, his internet connection completely locked him out and pretty soon he got a call from the resnet department.</p>
<p>so just stick with megaupload/rapidshare; anything that’s direct downloading.</p>
<p>i use [url=<a href=“http://www.zippysharemp3.com%5Dwww.zippysharemp3.com%5B/url”>http://www.zippysharemp3.com]www.zippysharemp3.com[/url</a>] to download music
i likemostly rap and dance music for me</p>
<p>you dont have to download a program like limewire, just grab songs from the internet
free= good :)</p>
<p>what about streaming music, movies, tv shows?</p>
<p>Streaming’s fine because you’re not DLing.</p>
<p>Does anyone know about setting up a VPN to encrypt torrenting traffic?</p>
<p>@ Jkl1492</p>
<p>VPN’s don’t really work (VPN admin’s easily fall over legal action and hand over all logs), are slow (you’re probably going to download slower than at home), and are often times down…</p>
<p>@ Jkl1492</p>
<p>VPN’s don’t really work (VPN admin’s easily fall over legal action and hand over all logs), are slow (you’re probably going to download slower than at home), and are often times down…</p>
<p>I second what leukybear said. VPN’s are slow and unreliable.</p>
<p>I’m not great with understanding the downloading vs streaming computer stuff and legality of things like that-- are watching tv shows people have posted on z-share and megavideo okay? Will it bring up any flags at UCSD?</p>
<p>No it will not. It’ll be just like youtube or vimeo.</p>
<p>How about mediafire?</p>
<p>Yea direct downloading should be okay but only in moderation…</p>
<p>In torrent, there is something called encryption data, that should help.</p>
<p>Nope, they can still easily catch you; I’m pretty sure many people tried it…</p>
<p>I downloaded about 3 terabytes of warez off of Rapidshare and Usenet last year on campus and never got warned.</p>