Are there any legal alternatives that are approved for sharing digital music and movies?

Yes. The Higher Education Opportunity Act requires all colleges and universities to offer legal alternatives to unauthorized downloading. Members of the Harvard community have access to a wide variety of physical, audio and video collections.  In addition, Harvard is pleased to endorse the set of alternatives that are provided by Educause, the higher education technology resource. More information about these alternatives and other related content may be found at http://www.educause.edu/legalcontent.