You arrive at Cornell.  You can't wait to watch season 2 of Heroes.  But the live streaming eats into your bandwidth limit, and who wants to pay $1.50 a gig after you run out of your 5gig/month limit? 

The Hub
The absolutely best way to get anything at Cornell is through the school hub.  As seasoned downloaders know, the bandwidth limit really eats into your ability to download crap. But the hub is all intranet, and intranet transfers are FREEEEEEEE. It's also the most secure way to get stuff without getting caught. You'll need to know the hub address. Ask someone for it.

BitTorrent
If you can't get it on the hub, the second best way is BitTorrent. Undoubtedly you already know how to use this. People can still get caught with torrents though, so if you can help it, get all the REALLY popular stuff- Eminem, Battlestar Galactica- from the hub.

P2P
STAY AWAY from anything P2P, like LimeWire.  So many people have been busted downloading stuff from LimeWire.  Like, seriously.

Should you get caught anyway, you'll probably notice your internet has stopped working. You'll get an e-mail about it telling you how to get your internet reinstated and you'll most likely get JA'ed. Don't worry about it too much. Like drugs, CU isn't obligated to tell anyone about anything you do.  Usually it just amounts to a few hours of community service or a small fine.

This is the second of a three part series. See the previous article on drugs, or the next article on violence.