Can I use a peer-to-peer program on ResNet?
Downloading from a site via a peer-to-peer is okay, but you risk unwittingly having your system used to serve copyrighted material to others on the peer-to-peer network. Whether this is your intention or not, the law will hold you responsible for copyright infringement. Examples of peer-to-peer software include Napster, KaZaA, Morpheus, Grokster, LimeWire, BearShare, Gnutella, AresWarez and BitTorrent. When you run any peer-to-peer software on your computer, the deal is that you can use the software to ask for a particular file and the software will give you a list of some computers currently connected to the Internet which have that file. You pick one and the software goes to that computer, makes a copy and sends it to your computer — the other person has no idea this is going on because the software runs in the background. And here is where the copyright infringement takes place: the other person just made a copy for you. And since you’re running the software, others are copying file
