Campus battle filesharing Ruckus
Filesharing is endemic throughout schools, universities and colleges. This is an inevitable by-product of putting lots of people together that may share tastes in entertainment. They’ll naturally want to swap their latest finds with their mates. Who would blame them? Filesharing comes naturally.
Services like Ares assist the filesharing community but it is the community that perpetuates the action. This means that stopping the filesharing requires a fundamental change in the people doing the sharing. So what have universities done? They have introduced a system where students are encouraged to use an alternative. The alternative’s name? Ruckus.
Where ruckus falls down is in the way it allows us to share our files: not at all. It is essentially none of the things that a service like Ares is: it doesn’t allow us to share music, to burn to CD, nor to upload to our MP3 players. Pointless? Probably. A replacement for filesharing? Definitely not.
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Posted on July 15th, 2008 by Laura
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