Word: napstering
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...result, outbound Napster traffic was taking up 10 megabits per second of Harvard's network connection--20 percent of the traffic on the network, Davis said...
Davis said HASCS has tentatively limited outbound Napster traffic to one half of a megabit per second, although he stressed that number was not final...
Davis would not say how HASCS was limiting network traffic, but a message from FAS Network Operations to the HASCS newsgroup yesterday said HASCS had placed restrictions "limiting the bandwidth of packets matching the signature of the Napster application...
...move came four days after Harvard officially announced that it would not block access to Napster in response to a request by a lawyer representing Dr. Dre and the rock group Metallica...
Harvard's recent refusal to block student access to the Napster music trading service is commendable. The University's reply, along with similar refusals by other universities such as Stanford and Princeton, provides a welcome contrast to the sad cowardice of Yale, which fully blocked Napster access last April in response to a lawsuit. More importantly, the decision reaffirms the principle that universities should be allowed to trust students with responsibility for their online conduct. The question that Harvard must now confront is one of enforcement when students make the wrong decision: The University must use discretion when addressing accusations...