University Purposefully Blocking Torrent Download?

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Originally Posted by limpingjaret

my uni does something like this...it basically corrupts torrent file headers so that I can download the .torrent file but when I open it up, the torrent client says the torrent file is corrupt...to get around this, use proxies like tor to download the torrent file. Now while most private sites don't allow you to login with proxies, it will let you download with one...So...log in normally, go to the torrent you want to download, open new tab, enable proxy, go back to tab with your torrent and download and you should be fine. And as mentioned before, enable encryption while downloading

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Thanks, I'll give that one a go when I've had more than 20 minutes of sleep.

Also, how is Berkeley? I was going to go there or LA, but instead I decided to go the libarts route in the Northeast.

i have the same problems , gives me a lot of seeders but 0 peers and the speed doesnt move at all

Hmm, Never heard about this before.
What happens if you try save traget as. Then save it as shakamoo.zip
Then rename it back to title.source.codec-group.torrent ?

If its a public torrent, you can use uploading.com's remote upload service. Just remote upload the torrent url and then download it from uploading.com.

It changes the file name to some number, doesn't have the torrent extension.

Using BT @ Universities especially in the United States is so fucking risky that I won't even explain that.

Reconsider this, because you may end up paying a half million additional tuition...

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Originally Posted by Nietzsche

Using BT @ Universities especially in the United States is so fucking risky that I won't even explain that.

Reconsider this, because you may end up paying a half million additional tuition...

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that's ridiculous. the worst that could happen is he settles out of court for 3500

Can't remember exactly how I got my uni connection working. I remember I had to type the proxy server name into a page in the general section of utorrent. Only problem is that if you have a file with loads of peers your uni firewall gets hit by lots of peers searching for an open port. I got tipped off by an IT gut that I am friendly with that at one point me and another guy at uni were degrading the uni firewall (happened during freeleech on SCT).
I then used a socks client for a while - but this really affects speeds.

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Originally Posted by koolyt

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Originally Posted by Nietzsche

Using BT @ Universities especially in the United States is so fucking risky that I won't even explain that.

Reconsider this, because you may end up paying a half million additional tuition...

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that's ridiculous. the worst that could happen is he settles out of court for 3500

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I happen to go to a college that has stated publicly that they will fight for their students, preferring that all requests by the RIAA and MPAA go straight to the Law school.

How about attending a different university?

I assume you're university only filters http connections using some sort of a proxy. If that's the case, you can find torrent files of public trackers on IRC channels and download them using DCC.