WITS (and other universities) policy on Wifi use

bigweezy

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Hy there, in you varsity (Wits in particular), do they allow download of movies and music via their wifi with you personal laptop or is this prohibited? Also, is there a ban on porn material such as porntube.com , this includes both it's viewing, video streaming and download- I don't want to be caught onthe wrong side of the law, btw I'm at Wits....thank you
 

froot

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In short, stay away from all of that. Their internet policy probably won't allow it and you don't want to get in trouble for silly stuff like that.
 

tortured

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You want to rape their bandwidth for movies, music and watching some shemale doing it with a dog. That's just messed up.
 

Crowley

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Yes, academic institutions have wi-fi for you to abuse. Why else would they have it?
 

Mills05

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Wits monitors all internet access. If you have been one of the top data users on a particular day you will receive and email with all the sites you visited. In addition the computer use policy prohibits the downloading of copyrighted and pornographic material with harsh disciplinary measures if caught. Its a case of you can do it but if you get caught the hammer comes down hard.
 

agentrfr

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You need to sign into Wit's proxy with your username and password. EVERYTHING you do is tracked and checked. Go ahead. Download pirated material and pron. You will be shown the door promptly.
 

AniV

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Seriously, just get your own internets to download your pr0n and torrents with.
It's not that expensive these days to get a 3G dongle and a SIM and several GB a month.

All universities have extensive web usage policies and site tracking.
You can get into a lot of trouble for doing this kind of stuff - do NOT throw away your tertiary education over something as pointless as a few downloads.
 
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