Ruckus not a solution for filesharing students
With all the pressure on students for filesharing, more and more campuses are encouraging their students to use Ruckus, a music-download service that offers fast downloads for students.
Despite this attempt to stop students filesharing, the reasons why Ruckus isn’t cool are the reasons why filesharing is so popular. Students want to download music that they can then play on MP3 players or burn to CD, as they can do with Limewire, Ares et al.
There are still those outraged that students partake in filesharing activities, but really, when they can use PS3s for free, why would they choose to go with Super Nintendos instead? Although Ruckus has more than one million users, students have to pay if they want to use their music downloads for burning CDs or playing on iPods.
It’s clear that Ruckus isn’t any type of solution to the apparent “problem” of filesharing. Filesharing will continue on campuses across America.
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well one view on this is at least you bring the Universities away from being underground, but what difference would it actually bring ? I’ve never used Ruckus, but I know a few people at University who do. They say it’s great !
Franca Richard 18Mar08
I totally agree with sheen, ruckus wont help anything in my opinion.