the university I'm attending is very large, and what they have in place is a system called 'BAYU' (Be Aware Your Uploading), if they notice your bandwidth usage is too much they send you an email notifying your uploading a suspicous amount

at orientation some IT people talked about how a ton of students got DMCA violation's for filesharing on campus, and about how the RIAA and MPAA are targeting college networks....

however, if i run my traffic through SSH, use only private trackers, and enable encryption, i should be fine...