Background info: The RIAA can only bust you if you download/upload using the internet. But if you share over the campus’s local network you aren’t using the internet and the RIAA isn’t allowed to monitor local networks. Many other universities use this for file sharing all the time.

So my question is does anyone know how people at here at NCSU are doing it? Do you know of an on campus DC++ hub, or a secure FTP server, or if people are using a local configured gnutella console, or something else (like lanshark, dlan, p300, ourtunes...).

P.S. I'm only interested in over LAN (not internet)

4/13/2012 10:29:35 PM

When I lived in the dorms it was all via good old fashioned windows 98 folder sharing.

4/13/2012 10:36:07 PM

4/13/2012 11:07:03 PM

dont do it man... you gonna contract an STD.

4/14/2012 12:47:24 AM

back in the day there was a program you could use to view everybody in your dorm's itunes folder and download whatever you wanted......those were the days

4/14/2012 1:49:43 AM

sounds legit to me

4/14/2012 9:18:55 AM

I remember when a bunch of students had a Waste (encrypted private) network set up for file sharing. That was a long time ago though.

4/14/2012 10:02:51 AM

there used to be a TWW WASTE network.

4/14/2012 11:10:33 AM

W.A.S.T.E was the shit.

There was also another program called VSHARE? or VLANSHARE? or something weird like that.

4/14/2012 11:28:23 AM

seeing as ncsu's network is all public, routable IPs, you'd have a hard time defining "local area"

4/14/2012 12:31:16 PM

and even if you encrypt this traffic, it will be noticed.

4/14/2012 12:34:02 PM

you know, you could basically create WASTE if you just installed sshd on everyone's box (that doesn't already have it) and setup a generic account with set privs and preshared key auth. then exchange the private key with those you trust. then just scp whatever you need

4/14/2012 12:43:49 PM

^^^ thank you for that. I could have sworn they were all public Ips but its been like 10 years so I am getting foggy.

You could always set yourself up as an SFTP dump site. That would show them.

4/14/2012 2:04:54 PM

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"When I lived in the dorms it was all via good old fashioned windows 98 95 folder sharing."

Browse Network Neighborhood. Oh Hello.

4/14/2012 2:30:38 PM

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"back in the day there was a program you could use to view everybody in your dorm's itunes folder and download whatever you wanted......those were the days"

yup, this was handy.

4/14/2012 3:32:47 PM

lol TVX

4/14/2012 10:04:55 PM

https://www.librarymixer.com/

Discuss???

4/14/2012 10:24:28 PM

^^^It was called mytunes redux. Basically anyone on your subnet/vlan, you could view their itunes library.

[Edited on April 15, 2012 at 11:51 AM. Reason : ^]

4/15/2012 11:51:13 AM

Mytunes was incredible, too bad I lost most of that music when my desktop's hard drive went out followed by my iPod 2 weeks later.

4/15/2012 12:05:43 PM

Is $0.99/song really too much for you to afford?

4/15/2012 12:38:31 PM

good old Resnet in the late 90s

4/15/2012 4:14:06 PM

Back in 06-07 there was some application that scanned all shared iTunes libraries on the LAN and allowed you to download those files

can't remember what it was called lol

[Edited on April 15, 2012 at 6:28 PM. Reason : ^^^^ nm....guess that was it]

4/15/2012 6:28:07 PM

win95 + net hood FTW back in the day.

I was that baller ass nerd running WIN NT 4.0 on my pentium 133

[Edited on April 15, 2012 at 8:19 PM. Reason : .]

4/15/2012 8:18:57 PM

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"good old Resnet in the late 90s"

haha i remember downloading my first ever "mp3"... Kung-fu Fighting... i only downloaded one though because i didn't want to fill up my hard drive (I never owned a computer before my freshman year at NC State and really had no idea about computer stuff.)

I remember there was one kid who had a "read me" where he was boasting about his overclocked, water cooled 266 mhz pentium II (or something similar) and how he didn't care if people streamed off of his system because it could handle it.

4/15/2012 9:03:00 PM

I’ve tried folder sharing. People have shared folders, but they either can’t be accessed or are empty. they don’t know how to use them apparently. I found out that mytunes and ourtunes stopped working after itunes 7. A lot of people share windows media player, but I couldn’t find anything that download from the stream.
I’ll look into WASTE, DC++, SFTP.

4/16/2012 12:35:42 AM

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"I never owned a computer before my freshman year at NC State and really had no idea about computer stuff.)"

I met a lot of people like this my first few years at state. Even in the mid to late 90's i thought it was really really odd how few people had any experience working on a computer.

Yes, it was well before PCs were commoditized, but it really wasn't inaccessible technology at that point.

4/16/2012 9:14:06 AM

I didn't get my first computer till 2001.

4/16/2012 1:48:38 PM