Word: napstering
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...Napster, the most popular of these software clients, has been downloaded more than 5 million times, causing its parent company's CEO, Eileen Richardson, to boast, "We're the fastest-growing company in the history of the Web." Gnutella, an open-source variant of Napster created by ex-hacker and current AOL employee Justin Frankel, 21, caused a buzz last week when AOL scurried to pull the software, calling it "an unauthorized free-lance project." AOL is planning to merge with Time Warner, a major player in the music industry. But by the time AOL yanked Gnutella, enough copies...
After installing extra bandwidth, the school was still unable to meet demand, and decided to ban traffic from the Napster web site, which is necessary for that company's application to work...
...taking up 20-plus percent of our network traffic," Andrews says. "We found that, at any point in the day, Napster was in the top five sites...
...Oregon State, growth in network usage was doubling every 90 days, prompting Associate Provost Curt Pederson to ban Napster-related traffic...
Steen says that similar problems with Napster have not been encountered here at Harvard--where network usage doubles about every year...