Campus battle P2P filesharing problem with Ruckus
The RIAA have been applying increasing pressure on, amongst others, learning institutions. These institutions, it reckons, perpetuate the file sharing ‘problem’ by allowing students to swap files on high-bandwidth networks with relative ease and with relatively little chance of being prosecuted.
So it is no doubt that the RIAA have no small part to play in the recent movie by colleges and universities to encourage students to use a free music downloads service like Ruckus. This is free in the sense of money paid, certainly not free in terms of the DRM protection you have to accept when you download your music. File sharing does not have to involve DRM.
Comparing Ruckus to one of the more popular file sharing applications like Ares it quickly be seen that the plan is very unlikely to work. If P2P filesharing is so easy – and so effective – then why change at all? Why would I choose Ruckus over another – more free – application? Answer: I wouldn’t. This is doomed to failure.
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