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As college students grow warier of peer-to-peer networks that the entertainment industry is known to be policing, underground alternatives like Direct Connect have become hotbeds of campus piracy. Direct Connect creates a digital hub that lets students swap tunes over the campus network without inviting off-campus file swappers — or the entertainment industry’s digital investigators — in on the process. (The Daily Texan)

Record companies might not have an easy time locating Direct Connect outposts, but they’re well aware that the service is out there: In a recent report, a group of campus officials and industry representatives identified underground services that work within campus networks as a new nemesis. For more on Direct Connect, see an article from The Chronicle by Brock Read.