San Francisco Community Roundtable

The RIAA have been getting their pants in a bit of a mess over P2P filesharing in schools, colleges and Universities recently. This has undoubtedly prompted the recent move by the institutions in encouraging students to dump applications and services like Ares and Limewire in favor of Ruckus, a free music download service.

The problem with Ruckus is that it doesn’t tick any of the boxes necessary to make it even approach the status of P2P filesharing. Does it allow sharing of files? No, you can download them for free, but you’ll not be burning them onto CDs or transferring them to your MP3 player. Can you swap movies or games? Obviously not.

So how anyone can consider this a valid alternative to P2P filesharing is a bit of a mystery.

The ‘problem’ of P2P filesharing (defined as such by those who are finically affected by it) is not going to be solved by offering a poor replacement, it is as simple as that.

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