Downloading in college.... remotely?

I wasn't sure where to post this, so I hope its in the right area.

As most of you college students know, the RIAA especially targets colleges in tracking illegal downloading and file sharing. I thought of a possible way to get around this problem, but I'm not sure if it will actually work.

So lets say someone remote desktop's to their home PC and downloads music to their home PC successfully, using a P2P program installed on the home PC. Then, if that someone was to set up some sort of encrypted FTP server (SFTP or FTPS) on their home computer which allowed them to send the music content to themself at college, would they be any more safe or less likely to being caught by the RIAA?

PS... this is just a thought, please don't assume I would partake in such juvenile acts of piracy.

 

The MPAA and RIAA do target universities more than the average ISP, and do target P2P more than other traditional modes of communication. Stuff like virtaul private networks and emails tend to be more secure, and less suspicious, forms of communication. Take from it what you will.

There are ways to do this type of not-legal stuff without either such a roundabout scheme or with the risk traditional methods entail, of course, but that wouldn't be found on this forum. But the legal method is still better - if you're in the U.S. as I assume you are with the RIAA concerns, consider the Ruckus Network for free, legal music.

Of course, the industry associations don't target exclusively universities. Not sure why you'd be concerned with such a hypothetical, though - you may want to share your reasons if you hope for the thread to remain open.

 

it's against forum rules to discuss illegal activity, regardless of whether or not you intend to partake in it

 

Oh, I'm sorry for bringing this up then. I should have read that before posting.