The untold story of illegal peer-to-peer network activity on campus
A student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts has written an article about an otherwise unpublicized case of a band of students that kept a peer-to-peer filesharing network running on campus so that users of the network could illegally obtain copyrighted material. The story needs to be told, so I'm running it here.
The student is my son, Dan, and his story is hardly a finger-pointing exercise. He identified himself as one of the many students who used the network to illegally obtain extensive libraries of music, movies and software. It clearly wasn't an easy story for him to write.
"Truth is what, in the end, really sealed it for me," he told me. "I do not want to hide the truth." He knew that if he didn't write the story, it would remain untold.
