The following is from "Copyright and Acceptable Use on the University Network - A Primer"

What kinds of activities are probable violations of copyright law?

• Copying and sharing most MP3s, images, movies, or other copyrighted material.
• Posting or plagiarizing copyrighted material on your personal webspace.
• Unauthorized downloading anything of which you don't already own a copy (software, MP3s, movies, etc.).

What is considered unacceptable use at UNC-Chapel Hill?

The following activities are forbidden by the UNC-Chapel Hill Data Network Acceptable Use Policy (please see this policy for additional unacceptable activities):

• Commercial for-profit activities. You can't run a business or even engage in for-profit activities over the campus network.
• Generating excessive network traffic or consuming excessive network resources apart from educational use. This often occurs when file-sharing programs (Audiogalaxy, Bearshare, KaZaA, etc.) are used to share a large number of files.
• Mass emailing.
• Distributing any kind of obscene materials, particularly child pornography, which is illegal.
• Threatening harm by harassing, stalking, transmitting obscenities, or other criminal offenses.
• Attempting to gain access to an individual's account or to nonpublic parts of the campus network.
• Attempting to intercept data transmissions on the campus network.
• Engaging in any electronic activities that violate any local, state, national, or international law.