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...about, right? While many institutions of higher learning profess to offer students new perspectives as one of their main goals, their actions fail to back up their claims. Recently, a number of schools across the nation, such as Yale, Indian University and USC have restricted their students' Napster usage. This new technology, while shadowed by swirling allegations of piracy and copyright infringement, is a major tool of mental enrichment and open-mindedness available to students...
...Napster has, in my view, about a 40 percent chance of prevailing on this issue in the appeal currently pending before the 9th Circuit," writes Harvard Professor of Law William W. Fisher in an e-mail message. "Scour believed that it could point to an even more extensive list of legitimate uses of its technology...
...example, while a song in MP3 format can be downloaded in less than a minute on Napster on a high-speed network, a full-length movie would take hours to download on Scour Exchange, even with an network as fast as Harvard's. For users with lower network bandwidth, the download times are slower...
Still, there is speculation that Napster may ultimately allow video to be traded on its servers. Fanning, however, has said his company is currently focusing all of its development efforts on creating a fee structure, in alliance with record label Bertelsmann...
...when firms like Napster or Centerspan begin to charge for use of their file-swapping services, it is unclear whether the users will follow--especially with free, though potentially illegal, options still out there...