Ruckus ruse against P2P filesharing
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!
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April 8th, 2008 at 12:08 am
[...] P2P filesharing happens. There is no way around that truth. Whether the RIAA like it or not – and indeed they seem like they’re set in for the fight – P2P filesharing is endemic and it’s here to stay. [...]
April 8th, 2008 at 12:17 am
[...] 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. [...]
April 8th, 2008 at 12:22 am
[...] 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. [...]
April 8th, 2008 at 1:36 am
[...] Ferrari? Maybe, but most others wouldn’t. This is as lame attempt as it gets when trying to stop ‘problem file sharing’. The only ones that think it’s a problem, interestingly, are those that stand to line their [...]
May 1st, 2008 at 2:04 pm
[...] violet Greek God who instilled fear in the souls of his enemies (and friends, by all accounts), the Ares moniker has been used throughout history. Recently though it has become the calling sign for two rather [...]