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August 07, 2007, 02:16 PM ET
File Sharing 101
Just in time for back-to-school season, Wired has written a guide to file sharing for students excited by the prospect of high-speed networking. The article isn’t revelatory, but it’s surprisingly frank about the factors students may consider when deciding how to swap songs and movies without getting into legal trouble.
One-click hosting sites, like RapidShare and SendSpace, let users upload files to others with “maximum privacy,” Wired notes, but “it’s often faster to carry a flash drive to your on-campus friends.” College officials may wish the magazine issued a sterner warning about the illegality of piracy, but they might want to give the guide a look: It does offer insight into why many students now try darknets and hosting sites in lieu of more traditional peer-to-peer services. —Brock Read
Categories: Campus-Piracy
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