Ways to avoid illegal download !!

Though most peer-to-peer (P2P) software—software that connects individual users to each other directly without need for a central point of management—and similar programs are legal, a lot of the materials available are not, and some programs may put your system and the NU Network at risk.
P2P software can be packaged with malware that can threaten your computer's security, and some of these programs automatically share everything on your machine, even if you've opted not to share. In addition, traffic generated by P2P file sharing of music and movies slows NU Network response time and detracts from the network resources available for academic and research uses.

Firstly , how can we legally download the software we wanted to have? 1 of the ways is software owners always provide the software to play the multimedia files, or need a service fee to download and use the multimedia files. Most software that play digital files is legal, even though some of them are not. Some software have been declared by court as legal like Kazaa, this does not give you legal permission to download and share any file available, even if the software makes it easy to do so.

Always check for the EULA  in every software you had downloaded. Once you have a software to play the files, you have to pay or obtain permission to play when using that software. When comes to decide whether they provide a legal multimedia file, look for statements that they have obtained the copyright permission of the artists or the companies.

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Reference: North Western Information Technology (NUIT)

URL: Avoid Illegal Downloading, File Sharing, and Unknown Uploads [Online], Retrieved 19th September 2011.