Are we living too much in the past? A security tip for US universities warns against iconic old file-sharing systems such as Kazaa and LimeWire

In the early 20th century, piracy was rampant on college campuses across the United States and beyond: with the advent of high-speed Internet and file-sharing tools like Napster, Kazaa, LimeWire, and BitTorrent, a file-sharing craze was fueled among tech-savvy students.

In an attempt to address this problem, the Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) of 2008 introduced measures requiring institutions to implement policies and educate students about copyright infringement. Failure to comply with federal law meant that institutions risked having their funding withdrawn. The effectiveness of these warnings is, of course, debatable. It's possible that they may have inadvertently promoted piracy by informing less-informed students about the existence of various file-sharing programs, but I digress.