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Old 02-13-2007, 10:32 PM   #1
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Default need help not getting busted for downloading

i'm in college and i live in the dorms, connected to the internet via a LAN cable. i download a lot of music on limewire and all sorts of things on bittorrent. one of my friends has gotten a letter about his downloading habbits from the school, threatening to take away his internet.

i have a theory that i could be safe by not connecting to their wireless network, which makes you register with the school. however, i am not sure this theory is valid.

does anyone know how i can keep my bad habbit without getting busted?
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Old 02-15-2007, 10:51 AM   #2
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dont do the crime if you cant do the time!!
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Old 02-15-2007, 11:13 AM   #3
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Heh, I didn't know they were still busting college kids for this

My freshman year was the most I heard about kids getting busted for stuff like that..

although, I was running a web server and downloading and uploading about 20+gb a month and never got one notice.

I had a router connected which might of prevented the network admins from scanning my stuff, so that might of helped keep me on the down low.


Either way, they should give you a warning before actually taking action.. so just make sure you have one of those hard drive wiping disks around to make sure no one can get data off of your hard drive
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Old 02-15-2007, 11:41 AM   #4
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I had a router connected which might of prevented the network admins from scanning my stuff, so that might of helped keep me on the down low.
supposedly thats the secret. I need to buy a router and try it out. Our school blocks torrents competley (which really sucks). Supposedly they track your inteternet so ur not looking at pr0n and such, but no one I know has gotten busted or a letter or anything like that. But yea, a router should help block the admins from scanning ur internet usage, im no expert, but thats what ive heard.
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Old 02-15-2007, 11:47 AM   #5
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what you do is, find out who the system admins are. get COOL with them, take um out for a few beers, get them a stripper, donate your sister to them...whatever the case may be. then start talking about computers, but make sure that they dont know that you know that they are sys admins at the uni...exploit the damn system!
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Old 02-15-2007, 12:41 PM   #6
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hehe, not to sound like a shithead but I have a feeling that porn is like beer. If all the universities in the world starting really enforcing the rules for either one....they would lose 80% of thier students..........
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Old 02-15-2007, 12:47 PM   #7
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Its not the porn they are worried about.. its all of the pirated software/movies/music college kids are downloading..
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Old 02-18-2007, 05:19 PM   #8
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router trick sounds enticingly easy. i think i'll try it, thanks for the tips
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Old 02-18-2007, 05:21 PM   #9
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A router won't help, use traffic encrypting clients, like utorrent. All others they could track your packet streams.
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Old 02-18-2007, 05:25 PM   #10
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ah good i started using utorrent last week. that thing rules i download tg episodes in 10 minutes!
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Old 02-18-2007, 07:24 PM   #11
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have you tried peer guardian? they have ip's of most colleges and universities blocked from connecting to your computer.
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Old 02-18-2007, 07:26 PM   #12
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^^ no how do i get it and what exactly does it do?
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Old 02-18-2007, 10:02 PM   #13
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Check out this page: http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/

That should answer most of your questions. I use it wuite regularly while surfing the net.
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Old 02-20-2007, 12:08 AM   #14
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Not sure if this will do the fix but using some proxy server or some shit? Or Torpark. Although I have no clue what I am talking about I just thought I throw those in as it might help...just might.
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Old 02-22-2007, 02:07 AM   #15
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Torpark is a IP randomizer but it's soooooooooooooo slow.
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