Filesharing Restrictions on Campus

I am currently a student at IUP(Indiana University of Pennsylvania). Like most students I highly enjoy my music and it is a huge part of my life. Before coming to IUP i decided to download RUCKUS a legal program they provide so people are not using illegal file sharing programs and flooding the network with p2p files. Now I don’t mind RUCKUS and it does have a wide variety of music. There are a couple huge negatives about the program thought. One being that it does not have some major artists. I only noticed a couple like Seether, Theory of a Dead Man, and Default, but I am sure there are many more artist not currently on RUCKUS. Ok, now even without this huge set back I still use it and continue to download on it but the other problem with RUCKUS is the fact that a person can not take files from RUCKUS and put them onto their MP3 players without paying $5 a month. So i took the liberty of using this option because I enjoy my music and would like to put the new music onto my IPOD. After pay the $5 I attempted to put them onto my ITunes and over 15% of the song could not be transfer because of liscence issues. So i decided to re-download my Ares.

Ares is a p2p filesharing program which has an option to upgrade to ultra which you have to pay for. If you upgrade to Ares Ultra then in turn it makes the program legal!. I did this about a month before I came here so that everything I was doing was legal. So I re-downloaded Ares and and made sure that all my file that were on it were NOT being shared. This mean it would not slow down the network, it would instead work with the same purpose as RUCKUS. The only problem is the school does not allow your search engines to connect with the Proxy’s. Now I’m not saying that my solution is perfect but either make RUCKUS more user friendly so you can successfully put music onto your MP3 players or they could just allow people who are legally using programs to do that if they turn all their files to unshared. Only other possibility I could see fit would to choose another program for students to use.I’m not sure wether this problem is just at IUP or if it is on campuses across the country. As a student please hear us out we just want our music!