No way around it. I got caught too and had to write a paper. The music industry or whatever, pays the Universities to monitor that stuff. You WILL get caught again
You can watch House for free on Hulu. And quit downloading. You got caught. Cut your losses while you are still ahead. Between Network websites, Hulu, and Netflix, you can watch almost any show for very little cost.
I bring my laptop to school on tues/thurs and my dumbass forgot to turn off my bittorrent once. Needless to say they emailed me within the hour letting me know I was using up an unusually high amount of bandwidth. Just don't download anymore, you been caught. Life does go on though.
Do you have internet at home or a friends house? Set up a VPN to tunnel traffic and block your university from checking what you're doing...
Dont use the university servers. They monitor that stuff, and catch people all the time. My friend at UT got caught a few years back and had to pay a $3000 fine. Easiest solution is to just pay for netflix.
Never said it was full proof, but it doesn't help. The biggest thing you can do is to seed as little as possible, which means deleting your torrent once it's downloaded.
If you don't seed, then on private/invite only trackers, you lose your ratio, which then leads to losing your membership, which then leads to losing access to the stuff you wanted in the first place. So I guess at the end of the day the risk is on you. Seed if you want access to stuff, but know that you might get caught. Don't seed, don't get access, and live (relatively) scotch free on the legal end.
I'm a member to several private trackers, and this is BS. I have a .1 ratio on Demonoid for example, and it doesn't matter... private trackers like Demonoid even say that their ratio's aren't accurate so do't feel bad if yours is low. If you do lose access it isn't hard to get back. Either way, EVERY torrent I get on Demonoid or other private trackers can be found on btjunkie.org, which is an open tracker. If btjunkie closes down or becomes worthless like thepiratebay, another will fill it's place.
im surprised nobody else has mentioned the fact that he was illegally downloading house! not p*rn or the latest harry potter or the beatles white album...he was downloading house! whatever your opinion is on the show (im not a fan), it is on about 4 different channels multiple times a day - it gives law and order: svu and scrubs a serious run for their money. why the heck would you need to download a show that you can literally turn on your tv and watch whenever you want? was it a specific episode you were looking for? if it cant be streamed for free on a site like hulu, you can probably buy it for $1.99 in itunes - then you dont have to worry about getting in trouble w/ your university... aside from the legal ramifications, think about the kind of server space it would take to have hundreds if not thousands of students constantly downloading stuff. the entire university system would be at a crawl all the time.
he *claims* it was an episode of House. (maybe he just fell asleep on the mouse and the download was an accident?).
