Word: napstering
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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...
...some doubt that even altering Napster will solve the problem of copyright infringement via file-sharing Internet programs...
...Even if [Napster] shuts down, there will always be other places to download music," said Ben G. Hanley...
...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...