Living in the past? Security advisory for US universities warns of old iconic file-sharing systems — like Kazaa and LimeWire

At the turn of the century, piracy was rampant on college campuses in America and beyond. The advent of high-speed Internet and file-sharing tools such as Napster, Kazaa, LimeWire, and BitTorrent created a craze among tech-savvy students.

To address this problem, the Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) of 2008 introduced measures requiring institutions to implement policies and notify students about copyright infringement. Failure to comply with the federal law meant that institutions risked having their funding pulled. The effectiveness of these warnings is, of course, debatable. They may have inadvertently encouraged piracy by informing less-informed students of the existence of various file-sharing programs, but I digress.