If you have hosting or access to a PC off campus you could use wget or a php script or something to pull the .torrents down, zip/tar them and then download that to your PC. (Assuming they don't actually block or shape torrent traffic. The fact that they're blocking .torrents leads me to believe they probably do though.)
Or you could create a tunnel to that box and route your downloads through that.
Or you could just use Usenet. It's far superior to torrents anyway.
Isn't the point of free stuff to be free? I thought Usenet cost real world money. Granted it's pretty cheap, but still. Guess it's comparable to paying for WoW or Xbox Live.Originally Posted by ephekt
I'm still trying to figure out what is happening to Absolution though. Are his torrent files actually being blocked, or it his college broadband access shaping the traffic? Or is it both?
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~$20 a month for basically unlimited media is a pretty good deal by any metric. Or at least that's how I look at it. What's more, you can download whatever you want without worrying about having to seed it back for a month (in the case of an HD movie, for example). But then I'm not opposed to paying for my stuff in the first place - Usenet is just easy.
Anyway, just throwing it out there. I know if I was in dorms I'd rather pay the few dollars for Usenet than even cable. Hell, I wish we had decent connections in the dorm back when I was in college.
uh the stuff you're downloading isn't free to begin with but good try
But wow assuming you're downloading typical industry material you really are a greedy rotten bastard.
Thanks for pointing that out Captain Obvious. I download a few games and movies here and there, nothing insane. I have no money to spend to begin with (all going towards college, I'm lucky if I get a few bucks spending money, and even then...), so the next best thing is torrents. Greedy, no. Typical fucking poor college student, yes.
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