<p>it's a 5gb limit on extracampus usage. intracampus usage is unlimited. DC++ constitutes intracampus usage.</p>
<p>Yes, but do people actually rip the dvds on campus or do they get them from extra-campus networks, killing their monthly bandwith in the process?</p>
<p>I kinda skipped the previous....5 pages of this thread lol because I am too lazy to read it all. But yeah I know the 2GB doesnt sound like a lot but it's really ok. First off as I am sure someone has mentioned, DC++, which is where you will get all of your pirated stuff (you should never have to go "off campus" to get any games, software, movies, tv shows...) uses the campus network and its traffic is NOT COUNTED in this. So basically the only thing you will use the bandwidth that is counted in this for is browsing websites and playing multiplayer games. I am not a huge gamer but I played BF1942 quite a bit freshman year, and also spent plenty of time on the usual collegehumor/entensity/ebaums type sites. I never even came close to the bandwidth limit. I honestly don't see it being a huge deal unless you are like running a porn site off of your computer or something, and anyway in that case you would probably be making enough to cover the costs anyhow.</p>
<p>Firus, I bet a lot of people show up with a lot of content on their computers. I know I've got the entire Seinfeld series, several films, expensive software, lots of music, etc. already on my computer. I'll be bringing that stuff with me and more to Cornell.</p>
<p>Yeah I mean DC++ is really the end all. You've got thousands of college kids sharing everything they have. So if one kid has, say, some episode of a tv show or something, it's going to spread and more and more people will pick it up to where a bunch of people have it. Basically this means its never hard to get anything. You can get literally any TV show or movie, song, or any software, even technical software.</p>
<p>Is there any chance that it'll get shutdown in the near future? I can't imagine that it's legal...</p>
<p><em>cough</em>...I think there's a good chance they will shut it down if people keep praising it on boards like this...</p>
<p>Well. Cornell knows about it, the recording industry knows about it. They're probably in the process of trying to figure out how to shut it down. They either need to find the hub, find a way to introduce tracers, or access activity logs....all of which would be quite a task.</p>
<p>Kinda random...but I'd assume that u would be on the computer a lot less and not watch those weekly programs you hated to miss in highschool. I'm sure that it would be good to have that happen because the college experience is amazing...so whats the deal?</p>
<p>the "deal" is that there is a huge difference between can and may.</p>
<p>Why would Cornell want the hub shut down? It wouldn't make any sense, because with DC++, everybody wins.</p>
<p>-It's internal traffic. Think about the available bandwidth on the intranet vs. the internet.
-The RIAA/MPAA are not on campus, and therefore cannot connect to the hub. They can't monitor its traffic, and Cornell students are less likely to get in trouble than if they used a public network.
-The university knows about the hub, its address, and I'm sure they know who runs it.
-Cornell has only stepped in when its own copyrighted material has been shared. I believe this happened when Jon Stewart came and his on-campus show was bootlegged, or some sort of similar situation.</p>
<p>Yeah, you guys dont know cornell real well yet, but the university doesnt honestly care about anything too much. The motto is "freedom with responsibility" which mean basically "do whatever you want as long as you dont die or get us in trouble". The school has shut down DC++ before and taken things off, like the stewart videos, but then they let it back up again. I dont think its going away anytime soon.</p>
<p>They have the same attitude about DC++ and underage drinking. The problem isn't going away, so their concern is to keep you healthy and safe and don't make its legality a big deal.</p>
<p>How does DC++ work? Is there a central IP to connect to, or when you start up DC++ does it automatically find all DC++ users through some sort of multicast? I'm going to Cornell for their summer program, so if you need an IP, it would be great if someone could PM me it :D.</p>
<p>Thanks,
Mike</p>
<p>mikesown: DC++ isn't up in the summer, sorry
DC++ is a peer to peer client with hubs. you connect to the hub and it verifies that you have a resnet IP address.</p>
<p>You all say Cornel doesn't care and I can believe that, but having seen what the RIAA has done recently, including on other campuses, I can't believe that they're going to just sit back and let it happen. I'm sure that when they get around to it they'll get a court to shut the system down. I just hope it doesn't happen until after I get my hands on all the stuff I want.</p>
<p>You can only connect to the hub and see its contents from an on-campus IP address. The RIAA is not on campus.</p>
<p>They aren't dumb. They know what's going on. Once they decide to take it to a court they will "be on campus."</p>
<p>Since you bumped this ancient thread…</p>
<p>How much has the Cornell Bandwidth changed? Is it still slow/limited?</p>
<p>It’s now 50GB/month before you start being billed.</p>
<p>Hahaha, I was getting ready to correct them for forgetting a zero, but then noticed it was in 2006. How did they manage? Poor, poor class of 2010 and prior…</p>