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Ahacoh

Tbh with you , downloading things illegally via bittorrent was pretty easy for my friends and they never got banned even tho they had it on 24/7. Thats probably down to the fact that World of Warcraft uses bittorrent technology and thats the one game that isn't blocked :/

Of course they may decide to change their tactics this year and start blocking people but somehow I can't see that happening. However I'd agree that you should probably save Xbox and the like for holidays as the actual uni term goes wayyyyyy too quickly as it is :biggrin:

Well I don't think you should be encouraging people next year to download from bittorrents.
Its pretty selfish as A) 90% of people stuck to the rules and restrained from downloading illegally even though they wanted to (including me!) and B) on some days it made the internet much slower for everyone else because they just had to have the latest tracks :rolleyes:

I converted to buying music online legally while I was in halls and I have to say I haven't looked back. Its so much better quality and not that expensive if you know where to go.

University of Exeter

Exeter

Reply 21

ForAllOfThis

Meh. It's annoyed me slightly, should be allowed to sort out my own internet connection if they are going to block things on it. At the end of the day we pay for the internet so we should be able to use it how we see fit.

Won't be able to use it during the holidays because my sister is moving into my room so will have the internet.

Suppose i'll just have to get clever. I wasn't thinking of hacking into their system, i'm guessing they have a firewall or something that blocks it. Ah well i'll just use up like 10 times more bandwith than I would if I had xbox live through video streaming etc in protest.

Reply 22

im in a coma

Using BitTorrent doesn't have to be illegal.
A lot of open source software is distributed using torrents.

I'm not sure it is even necessarily a case of Xbox Live being banned, rather a case of the way Exeter's network works. There's no practical reason why sending emails should be blocked, yet because of the way Exeter's system works I had to resort to sending emails via a web based system rather than a program on my computer for the year I was in uni accommodation.

Reply 23

sophisticated

im in a coma

Using BitTorrent doesn't have to be illegal.
A lot of open source software is distributed using torrents.

Do you seriously expect us to believe that 90% of students using torrents aren't downloading music/movies but instead innocently using it just for open source software??
Nahhhhh :o:

Reply 24

im in a coma

sophisticated

Do you seriously expect us to believe that 90% of students using torrents aren't downloading music/movies but instead innocently using it just for open source software??
Nahhhhh :o:

I don't expect you to believe anything. Not all torrent use is illegal and that point stands even if 90% of students download illegal content which is probably an understatement if anything. In fact, music files and films are about 3.5mb and 300mb each respectively, whilst if you download an open source operating system (which is likely to be popular with Computer Science types) then you are looking at 3gb instead. So illegal traffic is likely to be less demanding than legal traffic unless the student in question happens to be downloading the complete collection of lost or something.

It's like banning everyone from the roads because practically everyone drives in excess of the speed limit, even if it's only by an mph or two over the limit.