universities and file sharing

[LordMorpheus]

Originally posted by: ViRGE

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
I worked at my college's IT department. 95% of our dorm work orders were to fix peoples computers that got hosed because of viruses and spyware thru P2P apps. Your university is doing a good thing for its IT staff and bandwidth.

Your Uni is too nice, end-user computer repairs should be the responsibility of the users, not of the IT department. No doubt there's plenty of geeks on the side willing to make some cash out of the whole thing.

Thats how its handled at Rice. Students with enough experience work as on-call tech support, they come to your room and fix your machine when its broken and they get money. Two of them at every residential college (out of nine colleges).

Both of them at my college are good friends of mine and they are smart people. its a good system.

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus

Originally posted by: ViRGE

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
I worked at my college's IT department. 95% of our dorm work orders were to fix peoples computers that got hosed because of viruses and spyware thru P2P apps. Your university is doing a good thing for its IT staff and bandwidth.

Your Uni is too nice, end-user computer repairs should be the responsibility of the users, not of the IT department. No doubt there's plenty of geeks on the side willing to make some cash out of the whole thing.

Thats how its handled at Rice. Students with enough experience work as on-call tech support, they come to your room and fix your machine when its broken and they get money. Two of them at every residential college (out of nine colleges).

Both of them at my college are good friends of mine and they are smart people. its a good system.

Same at Berkeley. But more like a staff of 5 or 6 per dorm hall.

 

[daniel1113]

Originally posted by: neutralizer
Same at Berkeley. But more like a staff of 5 or 6 per dorm hall.

Same at Lehigh... I am one of them, and I bet 90% of my calls are P2P related (viruses, spyware, etc.).

 

[tyler811]

Originally posted by: aplefka
You'll be shot in the courtyard if you are found downloading anything. Even your grandma's latest digital pics.

Grandma porn pics? :thumbsup:

 

[FleshLight]

Wait a second, irc DCC works in college?

 

[Bucks]

Originally posted by: neutralizer
Use on-campus DC++, newsgroups, or IRC

:thumbsup:

 

[amol]

If they catch you, just grab one of your buddies in Harvard Law School ... you're bound to have at least one.

 

[magomago]

Originally posted by: loki8481
solution: don't fvcking steal.

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: tyler811

Originally posted by: aplefka
You'll be shot in the courtyard if you are found downloading anything. Even your grandma's latest digital pics.

Grandma porn pics? :thumbsup:

eww

 

[Mark R]

Heh. Back when I was at school, the rule was that you had a bandwidth limit - about 50-100 MB a day (with the exception of approved mirror sites).

If you exceeded that limit, you would need to explain why you needed that bandwidth for academic use, and why you couldn't have obtained that material from an official mirror.

Just before I left, there was talk of introducing bandwidth charging - you have to pay about 0.02 per MB that doesn't come from an official mirror site or another university.

 

[tami]

filesharing over internet2 shouldn't get you caught. filesharing to everyone else in the world will probably get your internet access terminated.

 

[her209]

Host your own porn website.

 

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?

Use Azureus, change your default port, and limit your upstream to something under 100KB/s.

If you want to risk your Harvard education over filesharing, you should really think twice man.

 

[GoSharks]

Originally posted by: BigJ
However for TV shows such as on HBO, or HDTV variants, where you normally have to pay extra for such content, it's not stupid at all.

(emphisis mine)
since when? never.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: GOSHARKS

Originally posted by: BigJ
However for TV shows such as on HBO, or HDTV variants, where you normally have to pay extra for such content, it's not stupid at all.

(emphisis mine)
since when? never.

When purchasing a TV, wasn't HDTV capability something you paid extra for?

 

[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

 

[neutralizer]

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

That sucks. Pretty much all P2P, bittorrent, IRC, newsgroups, DC++, all work on the Berkeley network.

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: Crazee
No I am OIT @ another college

Trinity? Rice?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: neutralizer
That sucks. Pretty much all P2P, bittorrent, IRC, newsgroups, DC++, all work on the Berkeley network.

of course they sell weed in the vending machines there, so what do you expect

 

[Jassi]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons

Originally posted by: neutralizer
That sucks. Pretty much all P2P, bittorrent, IRC, newsgroups, DC++, all work on the Berkeley network.

of course they sell weed in the vending machines there, so what do you expect

they do?

 

[EyeMWing]

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

Use DC++ or i2hub.

Not so. I2 has been hit recently; they found some moles who were willing to sell out the entire network in exchange for not being in further trouble.

 

[EyeMWing]

And this is yet another reason why I'm commuting. My bandwidth, my rules. Go to class, come home to another 250gb drive stuffed full of... Pictures of kittens. Yeah. Cute, fuzzy kittens. That's it.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: GOSHARKS

Originally posted by: BigJ
However for TV shows such as on HBO, or HDTV variants, where you normally have to pay extra for such content, it's not stupid at all.

(emphisis mine)
since when? never.

When purchasing a TV, wasn't HDTV capability something you paid extra for?

I don't know where you're from, but HDTV is free OTA here for all the major networks.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: ViRGE

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: GOSHARKS

Originally posted by: BigJ
However for TV shows such as on HBO, or HDTV variants, where you normally have to pay extra for such content, it's not stupid at all.

(emphisis mine)
since when? never.

When purchasing a TV, wasn't HDTV capability something you paid extra for?

I don't know where you're from, but HDTV is free OTA here for all the major networks.

Well I'm talking about actually paying a premium on the TV itself, not to the networks. Not the same as subscription programming, but it's not something you would have access to otherwise.

 

[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