In brief: colleges taking file-sharing into their own hands
Greg Goth · IEEE Distributed Systems Online · 2005
Colleges and universities have been in the forefront of the US debate over file-sharing technology. College students, heavy per capita consumers of digital music, were among the most active file-sharing network users, angering content providers for not observing intellectual property claims. LionShare combines P2P technology that ties in a user's activity to their network identification. LionShare users could connect to even larger authenticated networks of P2P users, enabling collaborative research over academic and grid networks.