Author Topic: College and P2P Issue  (Read 306 times)

Offline Tri Helix

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College and P2P Issue
« on: August 15, 2013, 09:25:41 PM »
Greetings, I've been a relatively long time user and love the site.  I wish I could contribute more, but I live in the sticks and my 170kb/.2kb speed kills me.

On that note, I will be moving to a college campus within the next couple of days and they seem to be very gungho and no-nonsense about copyright infringement.  Should I be worried, go dark, or not care?

Offline SeventyX7

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Re: College and P2P Issue
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2013, 09:31:09 PM »
I've uploaded 400 torrents on a college line.  It's fine.

Just don't do movies/tv/video games/American shit.

Offline Tri Helix

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Re: College and P2P Issue
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2013, 09:35:09 PM »
Ah of course.  Thank you.

Offline buchno

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Re: College and P2P Issue
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2013, 09:52:30 PM »
My friend got banned from the university wifi because he torrented libreoffice, so it really varies.
...he got the ban lifted later, though.

If they only care about copyright infringement, and not p2p overall, you shouldn't need to worry about bbt's content.

Offline Southrop

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Re: College and P2P Issue
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2013, 11:13:46 PM »
There's no way to say for certain. My uni uses eduroam's wifi network, and no one seems to care about torrents/file-sharing/whatever on that. However, the halls that I lived in in my first year had a very strict 3-strike no-P2P policy and a very extensive blacklist that even blocks sites like TorrentFreak.

Offline Tri Helix

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Re: College and P2P Issue
« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2013, 11:50:37 PM »
It's not so much the p2p but rather copyright snafus I'm/they're concerned about.

For now I'll take your(s) word for it and leech/seed on a low to medium bandwidth limit to test the waters.  ;D

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Re: College and P2P Issue
« Reply #6 on: August 16, 2013, 12:00:33 AM »
You'll be fine.