File-Sharing Continues at Colleges

Well folks, even with all of the best efforts of services like iTunes along with other music sharing services, file sharing is still running wild at select colleges.

As a college freshman, Will Mount feasted on the free but mostly illegal music available through online file-sharing software such as Kazaa. Now a senior, Mount has seen his free music fix become legal, thanks to an initiative by American University in Washington, D.C., to dissuade students from using its computer network to illegally swap music online.

If the music industry only had more like Mount. Many students still prefer to plumb file-sharing networks, despite efforts to make legal music available on campuses for free.

Shifting from the file-sharing free-for-all to a licensed music service largely has been positive for Mount, but he can understand why some students shun it. For instance, he can’t transfer the songs to his iPod music player. [Read the rest]