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...firewall is only a temporary solution. A properly implemented firewall would only block network traffic that students do not miss, such as outsiders' Napster downloads from student computers. If students actively decide to share their files and leave the firewall, the move will not accomplish much. With the price of bandwidth dropping rapidly, HASCS should increase network bandwidth so that there are fewer incidences of overload. Outages will only become more common if network capacity does not grow with increasing demand...
...REAL DISCONNECT Revolutionary or reprobate? Shawn Fanning's Napster may have brought free music downloads to the wired masses, but a United States Court of Appeals ruled that the technology violates copyright laws. Back to the CD store? Illustration for TIME by Vance Ypsilanti...
...Another problem is that peer-to-peer file sharing systems, like Napster, can allow porn to be posted at prearranged times on an unsuspecting host, then quickly removed. Breaking international rings takes agonizing coordination among multiple jurisdictions, many of which lack savvy cybercrime squads. And in some countries, laws and attitudes still lump adult pornography-which may reflect consensual activity-together with child pornography, "which is the picture of a crime scene, of a child being sexually assaulted," says Rachel O'Connell, director of research at the University of Central Lancashire's Cyberspace Research Unit...
...boosterish corporate leaders--every earnings report is upbeat, all bad news is only temporary--Napster CEO Hank Barry is refreshingly morose. The legal system is poised to squash Napster, making it impossible to continue operating, he says grimly. To stay alive, Napster will need the cooperation of the big record labels--the very labels it has tormented until now. And, oh, by the way, Napster also needs a major technological overhaul so it can sort through the millions of files shared on its site every day and filter out the illegal ones. "Welcome to my world," Barry says with...
...outgoing" traffic on the FAS network--that is, traffic that originates when users from the outside world retrieve data from student computers within the network--has led to a congestion of sorts. File-sharing is one prominent source of such traffic; students who share their music collection through Napster utilize bandwidth even when they aren't the ones who are actively downloading. The same holds true for hosting a website or FTP server. Since bandwidth is a finite resource, it acts in many ways like a highway. Increases in traffic lead to congestion, which in turn leads to a general...