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Re: The M/F thread - '08a reboot! Still with no requests!
imapiratearg:
A handful of American universities are cracking down on that kind of stuff, though. Blocking some students from accessing networks usually, but at the most extreme, lawsuits have been filed and some have been fined quite a bit of money. My dad showed me an article in Rolling Stone about the whole thing. Fuckin' RIAA.
Random1:
Anyone else having issues with that flobots upload?
thehollow:
From my dorm experience, they care more about programs like limewire (do people still use that? I've been out of the dorms for a few years) than they do about direct downloads or bittorrent stuff. My school would give you a warning before doing anything more severe, which usually ended up being a bandwidth cap. I don't think I heard about any lawsuits happening while I was in school.
You could maybe hook up a wireless router to your dorm internet connection and access through that. Then they can't prove conclusively that it was actually you who downloaded the stuff, since others could access the network. I've heard of people getting off with this defense, although this assumes that it's feasible (or not against school regulations) to set up a network in the dorm. I know it was done at my school though.
wespeakinmidi:
--- Quote from: imapiratearg on 14 Sep 2008, 19:24 ---A handful of American universities are cracking down on that kind of stuff, though. Blocking some students from accessing networks usually, but at the most extreme, lawsuits have been filed and some have been fined quite a bit of money. My dad showed me an article in Rolling Stone about the whole thing. Fuckin' RIAA.
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agreed. be careful, my ex girlfriend brought her laptop to a unnamed boston college and when she hooked her computer up to the network, she was later brought through a lawsuit for illegally downloading music. some of which i don't even think was downloaded on the campus network. anyway, as far as i know, they track all that stuff through p2p sharing. monitoring what is being downloaded on every computer that is not p2p would be some sort of privacy violation wouldn't it? anyway, in the end, she paid about $5,000 for her lawyer, and i don't even want to tell you what the initial charges per song were. download safely.
Scandanavian War Machine:
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wow. i was just listening to this while i was driving aimlessly around town stoned and it kind of blew my mind.
so awesome.
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