Back to School... File Traders Rejoice!

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While Napster was easy for college campuses to block, this years crop of students will have easier access to file-trading as the variety of Napster clones may prove to be too difficult to police.

I wrote up a weblog a few weeks back asking "Was Napster Actually the Answer?", which follows this same thread. Morpheus and AudioGalaxy seem to be the heir apparent right now, and Gnutella seems to be scaling quite nicely as well. From what I've found through my own studies for articles like alt.napster, some of these file-sharing programs are even easier and faster than Napster ever was. Add in that college kids tend to have a bit of spare time, can find their way around a computer, and have the college-provided bandwidth, and members of the RIAA are going to need to visit the drug store, as their headache is about to get much bigger.

Note to RIAA: Napster was easy to squash, you ain't seen nothing yet...