Ruckus is causing a ruckus in dorm rooms across the county; it’s the all-new all-singing all-dancing music download service being pimped to students by their learning institutions as the alternative to ‘naughty’ P2P filesharing that proliferates our colleges and universities.
Why are colleges and universities even bothered? Because the RIAA are putting the clamps down on those who aid and assist P2P filesharing; even if this aiding and abetting manifests itself just by offering a quick network connection, demanding that students hand over all their cash to someone else, then putting lots of like-minded individuals with similar tastes in music, movies and games in the same close space.
Essentially, P2P filesharing is an inevitable side effect of young people with no money. Why anyone could think that they would prefer to use Ruckus rather than the free (in all senses of the word) alternative of p2p filesharing using services like Ares is beyond me. Will it work? No.
Back to the drawing boards!