Sharing Ideas About Sharing Files

by E Wayne Ross on June 6, 2007

Inside Higher Ed: Sharing Ideas About Sharing Files

To use one of several metaphors to come out of Tuesday’s Congressional hearing on efforts to combat illegal downloading, colleges are finding themselves in the middle of a high-tech “arms race” between the recording and movie industries on one side and computer users, using increasingly clever methods to download copyrighted works for free, on the other.