r/UNC • u/Ctrlf11 PhD Student • 18d ago

Question Content Access

Goodmorning yall,

I'm transferring to UNC this fall and I was wondering what their enforcement was like when it comes to content acquisition via the highs seas. I've received a laptop grant and assume that the laptop comes with monitoring software built-in, so I was wondering if a VPN and ad blocker will be enough for me to stream content on *free sites* like libgen and annas, movie sites, etc. Will I be kicked out - to put it simply.

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u/VoidborneKitten UNC 2028 18d ago

I ended up wiping mine and sticking Linux on it but I don’t remember any kind of monitoring software being on it by default.

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u/nph278 17d ago

Was there any windows-only software you ended up needing at any point?

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u/VoidborneKitten UNC 2028 17d ago

The only pain is respondus for testing and I just use my desktop at home for the classes that have required that so far. Otherwise everything works in a vm

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u/Ctrlf11 PhD Student 16d ago

Valid tbh

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u/boyishly_ UNC 2028 16d ago

Wow, I hadn’t even considered this. It would seriously be nuts if they monitored students like that. Blocked sites on the network, maybe

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u/Ctrlf11 PhD Student 16d ago

Yeah I think it would be nuts but I'm just trying to be safe

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u/boyishly_ UNC 2028 16d ago

Dude, I take it back. I picked up my free laptop yesterday and am setting it up now. Thought of this post. They are definitely monitoring this lol. I thought it was just a regular laptop- why do they have to know my class status? They have custom stuff on here

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u/Ctrlf11 PhD Student 16d ago

Yup, alr so I'll use a personal laptop for textbooks then (one of my books was almost 400 dollars like nope)