Students are taking the filesharing bull by the horns, no doubt fed up with being sued by the RIAA for using filesharing networks to download free music.

Matt Earp and Andrew McDiarmid from the UC Berkeley School of Information have written their master’s thesis on filesharing, investigating how a monthly fee could work for a legal filesharing service.

The students have developed a model for how such a filesharing service would work. Amazing that it took students to really put forward some ideas that would solve the filesharing standoff with the RIAA.

The premises of the thesis are that 64% of students would be willing to use a paid filesharing service and that 75% of people who have used filesharing services would consider a paid service. Why didn’t the RIAA use these stats to come up with something?

It will be interesting to see what happens next, but legal filesharing is a hot topic at the moment.

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