Much of higher education's unease arises from the cost of dealing with illegal file sharing. Illinois State University, for example, calculated a cost of $76 to process a first claim of copyright infringement and $146 for a second. Responses range from simply passing along claims to elaborate programs architected with specific goals in mind. Higher education encompasses thousands of individual and individualistic institutions, each in a context of local cultural values, resources, and state laws. There is no single "right" approach to this complicated, multifaceted, nationally important, shared problem, yet people can draw from their collective experience for good ideas. This article aims to impart information and raise issues that will help one think through what will best achieve his institution's goals--from student conduct to legal liability, from technology to digital entertainment services--in an era of digital downloading. (Contains 23 endnotes.)