I attend a nice college in the US.... They do not block P2P but they give you a fair warning that the government is watching university students..... Even if you find a way to break through all the restrictions of your campus's network.... most likely if you are unencrypted, you are at risk of getting caught and I would not recommend using a popular P2P for illegal files or any type of WAREZ.... Even FTP downloads could be risky if the filenames are obvious.... I live off campus so I am fortunate enough to have freedom of download.... If you are on campus.... Find an online buddy that is willing to help you find some of the files your looking for and send them to you encrypted on an open port.... I was actually wondering about this yesterday, Is there a good software for encrypting file transfers or the filenames, etc.? I have an FTP server that I was gonna set up for some buddies of mine that live on campus.... but I don't want anything to be sent non-encrypted through the schools log files..... I was also curious about this, Is it illegal to encrypt data since the DMCA(my least favorite law)... and will you get watched for encrypting data transfers? And one other thing.... Is there anyway to see if you are being watched.... tracert maybe?