Downloading in College

hirako
Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:56:38 +0000

ana_ro:

What if someone sends me a song by email or AIM, YM, Skype, whatever? Is it still illegal? Can schools still find out?

The schools don’t care at all about how much copyrighted content you’re downloading. They just don’t want to get any legally threatening letters from copyright holders saying that someone on their network is infringing copyrights.

If you want to share files (copyrighted or not) with friends, you should check out [url=http://www.getdropbox.com/]Dropbox[/url]. You can get a free account with 2 GB of space that can be used to store and share any files you want. Since it’s all done privately with your friends, it is literally impossible to get caught.

Another option is [url=http://unite.opera.com/]Opera Unite/url. Opera is a (very nice) web browser that now also has a file server (as well as a web server, photo sharing service, media player, & chat room) that will run on your computer and let you share files with anyone you want.