An AP story suggests students might suddenly change their mind about using peer-to-peer (P2P) software themselves if faced with a simple test:

Missouri University of Science and Technology now requires students to ace a six-question quiz on digital copyright law to get six hours of access to peer-to-peer software they can use to share music and movies online.

The quiz has cut copyright complaints on campus from recording industry to eight this academic year, down from 200 in 2006-07, said Tim Doty, a campus systems security analyst.

I wonder whether they a) simply can’t pass the test b) suddenly become disenchanted with P2P after reading about restrictions c) have no need to bother anymore after using a “mule” to take requests and perform primary downloads from outside the campus network and then distribute files internally without detection.