p2pnet news | P2P:- “Recently the MPAA released the top 25 movie piracy schools, and Purdue ranked fifth with 873 students identified as ‘making unauthorized use of copyrighted materials’,” said a Purdue post last year, going on >>>

Pirates trailed Columbia University by about 500 downloaders, but remained tops in the Big 10. This is hardly ground breaking for Purdue students, who finished second on the RIAA’s list of top music dowloaders (Purdue trailed only Ohio University on that one) and in fact, we are the only school on both lists top 5, Argh!

These ranks are quite disappointing. Purdue students need to re-evaluate their morals and ethics. Fifteen bucks is hardly too much to ask for a legal copy of a movie, even if it has already grossed a billion dollars world wide. Also, why not pay twelve dollars for a CD that cost two to make? The record company executives have homes (and cars and vacations and mistresses) to pay for.

Purdue students should band together and make sure that next year we finish in the top of each of these lists. Sure a few students may have to take one for the team, but they can be a martyr for the cause! Why stop at the ‘Gold Medal for highest overall ranking’ when we can top both lists? Follow Jack Sparrow and loot, pillage and plunder the record and movie industry in a way they’ll have to listen. Hit them in their wallets.

But not to worry.

Now, “Maybe Purdue can’t beat other schools’ music scenes, frat-house parties, hot girls, and what not, but at least we’ve got them beat in the piracy department, blogged Lainii this year, continuing >>>

After all, we are the #2 school in music piracy as noted by the RIAA.

Welcome to DCgate. To put it simply, it is file sharing on steroids. The IRC-based network transfers at about 1MB/sec. A typical song is about 4 MB, and an avi movie is about 900 MB. You do the math.

The best part is that the bandwidth does not count into the 5 gig limit set by ResNet, and there is always a good pool of students sharing to make the network extensively diverse with files. (So yes, download away on the porn, perhaps the most popular type of file shared. Right after the pr0n.)

All that’s needed is the hub called Dtella and a client program, where upon you can pirate to your heart’s content and stalk the pretentious “regulars” on the chat window.

Bottom line is that DCgate is the ****. It is one of the top reasons I am looking forward to going back to school. The webpage has extensive information on installation and setup (we got nothing to hide), so set up freshmen and (legally, my friends, always legally) share away.

Forget your college: Purdue is offering a major in information overload. (Yes, we’re talking to you, Cornell)

So what is DCgate?

Only the, “best way to chat and share files with other students at Purdue,” promises the site.

It allows users to connect to others on the Purdue campus, “and share files at blazing speeds, all while not using any of your 5GB bandwidth limit”

DCgate connects computers to a IRC server which synchronizes data between clients and lets clients know where other users are on the network.

“Think of DCgate as your phone and the server as the directory,” say the creators. “It shows you the address of other users on the network.”

Definitely stay tuned.

Slashdot it!

Purdue - MPAA, RIAA ranks disappointing, July 15, 2007
RIAA’s list,  RIAA’s list,  February 15, 2008
blogged Lainii - How to do cool stuff at Purdue: Dtella style, April 14, 2008

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