Nobody Likes a Snitch

The backlash against a student who said he reported file sharing suggests that online piracy on campuses will be hard to stop

By BROCK READ

College Park, Md.

Want to get a group of college students up in arms? Try taking away their pirated music.

That's a lesson that Pavel Beresnev, a senior at the University of Maryland at College Park, learned firsthand last month....

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