universities and file sharing

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
well at our university one guy got taken away by universal for running a DC++ hub, thats about it

no more DC++ hub have arisen now, and it was soo cool as it was on campus and you could leach off anyone on the uni network at a couple of mb a second.

they recently went round telling anyone using , ARES, kazaa, winmx and the like, will be perma-band from the uni network....never happened. but the whole network works tighter than a nun's chuff, not bit torrents work, P2P bearly works, even mIRC hardly works theres that many ports blocked

my school was like that my last 2 years there

IRC wouldent even connect so you could chat, it was a "security risk" kazaa worked at a speedy 3k/s max DL speed, torrents didnt work at all, we did have a DC++ hub that I ran but it was internal only so new material was hard to come by

At our school, there was off-campus housing that had no affiliation with the school. So they would use VPN to log onto the schools network, hop on the DC++ hub, and and upload content to a person or two. And at 1MB/s, that's all it takes to get around on the Hub.

Also, people would simply bring their noteboooks from their off-campus apartments and hook them up to the resnet.

 

[Tab]

Anyone using DC++ or anything else that doesn't have any kind of protection is so asking for it.

Use WASTE.

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

Originally posted by: BigJ
Anything that uses the intranet as opposed to the internet will be fine.

Use DC++ or i2hub.

ummm...harvard's i2hub got busted for interschool sharing, as with most other schools using dc++ on i2hub

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: Tab
Anyone using DC++ or anything else that doesn't have any kind of protection is so asking for it.

Use WASTE.

The problem with WASTE is there is so little material, and nobody wants to spend all that time setting it up to add material. It's that simple.

It's a great concept, but will not catch on.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: iwantanewcomputer

Originally posted by: BigJ
Anything that uses the intranet as opposed to the internet will be fine.

Use DC++ or i2hub.

ummm...harvard's i2hub got busted for interschool sharing, as with most other schools using dc++ on i2hub

And if you don't share, or only share legal files, what's the big deal? Show me one case where someone was actually prosecuted and fined for just downloading files.

Also, it was extremely suspicious as to how the RIAA/MPAA actually got onto I2, considering its supposed to be private and restricted. I haven't followed up since the article originally broke.

 

[MAME]

Originally posted by: HaxorNubcake
I just finished registering my computer and they repeatedly say OMG NO FILE SHARING OR YOU WILL TEH DIE!!! are these idle threats or should I keep the blue froggie away?

edit: I'm at harvard...anyone else here w/ experience?

hey yuppy, you can afford to not to steal