hey all! i'll be going to college next year and i wasn't too sure of the situation with colleges and p2p nowadays. even if they try to block the use of p2p programs (through whatever means), there are ways around it. However, is there still a big crackdown on p2p in college? I haven't heard too much news about it lately, but that doesn't mean anything one way or another. do you think it would be safe to continue downloading in college (this includes everything: music, games, movies, software, etc.) or is it just too risky to do? Note: by safe, i mean in relation to downloading at home because i realize that "safe" is relative to the preventive methods you take. I'm even considering dl'ing the stuff on my comp at home, burning it, and bringing it to college during breaks lol. Obviously this would be safer, but the inconvenience is apparent. Basically I just need to know what the deal is with college and p2p today. Have they become more lax or have ppl just been forced to stop? thanks for all the help.
hey it depends on the college. Some are really strict, some are more lax.
The best way to find out is to ask someone who goes to the school.
I'd look for your college's network section. Ours is called ResNet and on it's section of the website it tells us it's P2P guidlines and stuff. It basically says we don't care what you do, use the line how you want, if you get caught it's your problem.
our college provides a guide for disabling sharing.
i know that most are taking the steps to block p2p. when i was on the network, I couldnt use anything except ares.
besides the speed of downloading in p2p on the networks sucks, it may be t3 but you are sharing that t3 with least 10,000 other students, and your uploads are faster then your downloads.
If you going to use it, its best to disable your sharing because you will be caught no matter how well you think you can get away with it. THe RIAA and the MPAA are targeting schools more
That's a good thing...it helps the communityOriginally Posted by flantanella
You should always give more than you take. Otherwise file sharing wouldn't exist. As long as you are reasonable with your bandwidth usage, there's no reason for them to single you out among the thousands sharing on the campus. As for the RIAA, they seem to only go after those sharing huge amounts of files. Just don't share 1000's of songs. As far as I know the MPAA has yet to file a single lawsuit against filesharers. They've been going after the sources. Currently all you have to worry about from the MPAA is nasty DMCA violation notices.
bittorent might be good for college users but lets wait till malicious intent or miniver says otherwise.
Ya what college are you going to?
At Penn State we have a 1.5 GB/week limit, as we as stupid ass firewalls this year that will block all incoming connections (so much for BT)
well i just checked and it appears i'm screwed, heh. It says p2p is not allowed and continues to quote the ResNet policy, "You are not to run any services (i.e., ftp services, listservers, publish MP3s using napster, publish files via generic file services, etc.) via this residence hall connection except http servers." Boo on NYU! so many ppl love it, but it was just the only place i got accepted so i'm transferring next year anyway (yes, unrelated topic lol).
I will try to ask some people who go there though and see what they have to say. I can't imagine a life w/o filesharing :(
Didn't they take your network money and make you all get napster accounts?
yea i know file sharing wouldnt exist if everyone disabled their sharing, but most colleges are either requiring for all students to disable their sharing or have their internet cut off, and no the RIAA is not going after only people that have many files. A friend got caught cause he had one song file in his share folder. SO basically my opinion is that if they want to find you they will.
And no having more upload speed is not good cause then it slows down your computer.
Anyone ever heard of Port Tunneling? making your p2p traffic look like normal web traffic is a good thing. It's not an end all means or a perfect solution, but it works usually
How's about them apples?
AC7, if you want a websight that offers free music then go to www.espew.com
though i suggest you hurry up and get all you can off that websight before the RIAA shuts it down
i see flants point thats why I use bittorent so no programs can hog my system of its resources because i wouldnt like some other dude to take more then i am getting and slow my computer down
Well that would be nice, but PSU doesnt even allow HTTP servers...
Yup, and they they use some more money to install the bullshit firewalls... Thats just Penn State for yaDidn't they take your network money and make you all get napster accounts?
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