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...hard drive for outside access; a list of contents are then uploaded to the OpenNap server, which does nothing but publish a directory of connected clients and offer a means of searching them. Any downloads are conducted between users, and the files--any file can be shared, not just mp3s--will never pass through the OpenNap system. These servers, which differ only slightly from Web search engines like AltaVista or Google, are now in danger of being shut down under accusations of "contributory copyright infringement"--of being punished for using names resembling "Napster...
...this weekend, if your control-freak Harvard brain tells you to stay in, pump up the Simon and Garfunkel mp3s and study for that wicked chem midterm that's coming up, tell your brain to go stuff it and come on down to the Grille. They barely card you there, I hear--and the first round...
...alternatives could be the most legally vulnerable. Take Aimster, the Napster clone that relies on AOL's ever popular instant-messaging software. Download it (from Aimster.com) and you'll get an unseen extra layer to your buddy list, called a Buddyizer. This means that theoretically you can trade your MP3s with some 60 million "buddies." Hey, presto: an instant Napster-size network. As a bonus, Aimster currently searches Napster as well. "People already have thousands of MP3 files on AOL. All we did was add a search function," says Johnny Deep (his real name), 43, a software engineer...
...MP3s and other files downloaded from Harvard computers by non-Harvard Internet users are one example of information that moves in the outbound direction. Harvard students using Napster and other music-sharing Internet services to download files weren't causing a problem--but users who get their music from Harvard computers were taking up enough bandwidth to slow the network...
...where at 3 p.m. on a typical day, outbound traffic was taking up 85 percent of the network. Davis pointed out that at most Harvard students are not using their computers at that time, so this enormous amount of outbound traffic was very likely the result of outsiders downloading MP3s, videos or other files from Harvard computers--sometimes without users even realizing...