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nageov3t

Lifer
Feb 18, 2004
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Originally posted by: ViRGE
Yeesh, don't they teach you kids anything these days? Use newsgroups, they're practically untracable and a hell of a lot faster. :evil:
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the first rule about usenet is... you DO NOT talk about teh usenet.

/fightclub :p
 
Anubis

Anubis

No Lifer
Aug 31, 2001
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Originally posted by: ViRGE
Yeesh, don't they teach you kids anything these days? Use newsgroups, they're practically untracable and a hell of a lot faster. :evil:
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yea that only works if your school has its own news server
 
Fingolfin269

Fingolfin269

Lifer
Feb 28, 2003
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Originally posted by: loki8481
Originally posted by: ViRGE
Yeesh, don't they teach you kids anything these days? Use newsgroups, they're practically untracable and a hell of a lot faster. :evil:
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the first rule about usenet is... you DO NOT talk about teh usenet.

/fightclub :p
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drum

drum

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Feb 1, 2003
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Originally posted by: ViRGE
Yeesh, don't they teach you kids anything these days? Use newsgroups, they're practically untracable and a hell of a lot faster. :evil:
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then you should know what the first rule is! speak not!
 
OREOSpeedwagon

OREOSpeedwagon

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Wouldn't buying the game and claiming you were downloading a backup copy be pointless? because you're in trouble for sharing the game, not downloading it?
 
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SomeDude22

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Originally posted by: OREOSpeedwagon
Wouldn't buying the game and claiming you were downloading a backup copy be pointless? because you're in trouble for sharing the game, not downloading it?
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no he tried to download it
 
ViRGE

ViRGE

Elite Member, Moderator Emeritus
Oct 9, 1999
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Originally posted by: loki8481
the first rule about usenet is... you DO NOT talk about teh usenet.

/fightclub :p
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Sorry about that, I'm tired and I wasn't thinking.:(
 
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DaveSimmons

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Aug 12, 2001
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Originally posted by: Grouchyoldguy
It would really suck if someone e-mailed a link to this thread to U. of Minessota's IT department.
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especially a mod who could look up his IP and email addresses :evil:
 
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wfbberzerker

Lifer
Apr 12, 2001
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at my school (university wisconsin - milwaukee) if you get caught sharing stuff they'll just kick you off the internet for a month
 
spanky

spanky

Lifer
Jun 19, 2001
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how about be honest and say u r sorry, that what u did was wrong, and that u will not do that anymore.
 
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OVERKILL

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Originally posted by: Paktu
I am a student at the University of Minnesota and get my internet service from them. I have been using Azureus to download various torrent files over the past few months, along with Peerguardian. The other night I attempted to download a recently released game, but did not complete the download. It appears that the University received a cease and desist notice last night, so they cut off my internet access. I have to meet with my residence hall director (who is not technologically savvy) some time in the near future.

I know how I'm going to be lectured in this thread about how what I'm doing is illegal, wrong, unethical, kills kittens in soviet russia, etc. But does anyone have suggestions about what to tell my hall director that will get me out of this? Should I buy the game in question and claim I wanted a backup copy? Format my HD? Claim one of my roomates went on my computer? I'd like some ideas here.
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No offense, but your in college and you actually thought that you could get away with downloading torrents using your schools ISP. Amazing.
:roll:
 
Triumph

Triumph

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
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:confused: Ok, I guess I'm outta the loop. I graduated 3 years ago, which means I last lived in the dorms in 1999. And wtf? That's ALL we did with our bandwith was download MP3's, warez, games, etc. All of this was freely available via Network Neighborhood. Nobody got in trouble, no one was threatened with expulsion, and no one gave anyone a guilt trip about it. Is this really how things are at schools these days, where any activity like this will get you in deep sh!t? And does everyone pay for everything they have nowadays too? That's the impression I get, at least from reading all of the holier-than-thou posts in this thread. I guess I'm just outta the loop.
 
Anubis

Anubis

No Lifer
Aug 31, 2001
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Originally posted by: Triumph
:confused: Ok, I guess I'm outta the loop. I graduated 3 years ago, which means I last lived in the dorms in 1999. And wtf? That's ALL we did with our bandwith was download MP3's, warez, games, etc. All of this was freely available via Network Neighborhood. Nobody got in trouble, no one was threatened with expulsion, and no one gave anyone a guilt trip about it. Is this really how things are at schools these days, where any activity like this will get you in deep sh!t? And does everyone pay for everything they have nowadays too? That's the impression I get, at least from reading all of the holier-than-thou posts in this thread. I guess I'm just outta the loop.
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it was that way last year, i graduated in 2004 and it was the same as you said, fvck i rant the schools DC++ server, i actually talked to the head of IT about it, he said as long as i dont allow connections from outside the school network the school didnt care
 
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Yellow Dog

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Originally posted by: Paktu
what I'm doing is illegal, wrong, unethical, kills kittens in soviet russia, etc. <snip> Claim one of my roomates went on my computer?
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For someone that is smart enough to get into college, you sure a dumb fvck. So you know what you were doing was wrong, and you want to compound your problems by adding more wrongs on top with lies. Google "really fvcking stupid" and see if your picture shows up!

 
mugs

mugs

Lifer
Apr 29, 2003
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Originally posted by: Triumph
:confused: Ok, I guess I'm outta the loop. I graduated 3 years ago, which means I last lived in the dorms in 1999. And wtf? That's ALL we did with our bandwith was download MP3's, warez, games, etc. All of this was freely available via Network Neighborhood. Nobody got in trouble, no one was threatened with expulsion, and no one gave anyone a guilt trip about it. Is this really how things are at schools these days, where any activity like this will get you in deep sh!t? And does everyone pay for everything they have nowadays too? That's the impression I get, at least from reading all of the holier-than-thou posts in this thread. I guess I'm just outta the loop.
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Schools started cracking down a lot more when the RIAA and MPAA started putting pressure on them. I think you'd see less holier than thou posts if the guy wasn't looking for a way to CONTINUE downloading stuff after he got caught.
 
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crontab

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Originally posted by: KLin
Kiss your ass goodbye idiot.
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Ditto. Depending on how prepared or informed your hall director is, you very well may be kicked out of school. Delete all you want. The static IP is pointed at you, and obviously they've been monitoring and logging it. I don?t like using torrents to download stuff since you?re forced to send.

I was caught as well during college, but this was a few years back before any p2p stuff. I hammered a few non-US ftp sites to download stuff and a Swiss ISP, I believe, reported me. Whelp, my account suspended, had an appointment to see the Dean of Internal Affairs. Note, this was a week prior to getting my EE BS! Fortunately the Dean was an old blind geezer that didn't have a clue about computers. I stated that I was testing my senior project and inadvertently affected some sites on the Internet. Phew, that was close. Didn?t want to waste 4 years over that.

Good luck.
 
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