File-Sharing Students Fight Copyright Constraints

by E Wayne Ross on October 10, 2007

The New York Times: File-Sharing Students Fight Copyright Constraints

When Zachary McCune, a student at Brown, received an e-mail message from the university telling him he might have broken the law by downloading copyrighted songs, his eyes glazed over the warning and he quickly forgot about it. “I already knew what they’d say about file-sharing,” he said. “It’s become a campus cliché.”