Word: napstering
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Applications like Napster impede efficient network operation, and some colleges and universities have been forced to ban the popular music-swapping website to prevent prematurely exceeding bandwidth limitations for their networks...
Steen said the expansion of bandwidth is unrelated to Harvard's recent decision not to ban Napster from its network...
...originally said that Napster was not affecting our bandwidth," he said. "The whole discussion for Harvard dealt mostly with the illegality of Napster...
Harvard's decision was correct on both practical and principled grounds. Metallica and Dr. Dre, the recording artists who had requested the Napster ban, have not yet taken legal action against the University, nor are they likely to do so before Napster's own legal battle is resolved. Furthermore, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) affords protections to service providers such as Harvard that would make such a lawsuit difficult to pursue. However, we are glad to see that Harvard did not make its decision only because of its secure legal position--Assistant Provost for Information Technology Daniel D. Moriarty...
Although the Napster system may frequently be used to access copyrighted material, the same could be said of telnet, ftp, HTTP, NFS, Windows networking and every other electronic communications protocol yet devised. A ban on Internet traffic directed through Napster might create a precedent that would force the University to take steps more restrictive of student freedoms...