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It's too bad that it's a centeral server model, it seems to be only for those at TG03.

hrumph.

For a cool app that does the scanning it's self, check out Share Scan

Great for campus networks...

As another poster mentioned, the program these students are being sued over is a server that scans a Windows network and allows users to search. My 700-student college, Mudd, used to have a similar web server ("Muddster"), but it was taken down. The version of the story I heard is that school administration had it taken down because students from neighboring colleges (but not complete outsiders) could search and download through it. A friend just put up a replacement, called M2M, which does not allow downloading through the server. So far M2M is a bit slow for me.

In the meantime, I'm happy with Sharescan, a Windows program that scans Windows networks without the help of a server. It's a little annoying that Sharescan has to scan the entire network each time I run it and that searches don't include computers that are offline, but the speed is great and I love being able to click "Open Location" to open the folder containing a search result in Windows Explorer. I fear graduation, because I'll have to return to using unreliable P2P networks for my music pirating needs.

We have universities actually giving out things like ShareScan (e.g. university of Toronto). At McMaster they give out ResX, a KaZaA clone that works within the university only (to only take down the LAN, not the pipe to the net at least :D ). In fact of most of the universities I've visited (I'm in grade 13 getting ready to go next year) the universities have been basically anti-file-sharing in press releases but in reality very much pro-file-sharing. Whatever keeps the students happy I guess.

I have known that for quite awhile on the university network, there are people sharing all kinds of $h!t: Homework (even read a guys term paper), pr0n, warez, pictures...My desktop wallpaper was taken from the university's digital imaging center's hard drive as well. If you really want to be a whore about this, there is a software package called ShareScan that works really well...

Here at Truman State they throttle all p2p ports down to about 10% of the total bandwidth(not sure of the total though). There are so many damn many people using it thought that any one person only gets about .5K/sec. I don't mind though. Everything else is fast.

There's quite a bit of good stuff on the internal network though, and thanks to ShareScan, it's easy to get. Also, learn to use IRC. At least at my school, the standard IRC ports aren't blocked or throttled, so you can get everything you need at great speeds, if you know what you are doing.

Grab Share Scan. It's a nifty little SMB share scanner (as the name implies). I found a decent amount of stuff shared just on the LAN in my apartment complex, so if you're on campus somewhere, you're bound to find a lot.

Yeah. If you have sharescan and a college network, who needs Napster/Gnutella/WinMX/Kazaa?