Wired Campus Blog reports that the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University wants to build an upload tool into Zotero which allow scholars to share their research materials. In principle, this is a great idea. But there's a better, well-proven technological method for sharing files that doesn't require scholars to load them into a database. It's called P2P, and it's surprising that Wired Campus Blog didn't comment on this given that they appropriated the "share" rhetoric of P2P in the title of their post, New Effort Encourages Professors to Share the Research Materials on Their Hard Drives. I thought it was going to be about P2P before I even read it. Has P2P gotten such a bad name in the academy that the power of its potential legitimate use is not considered?