Word: napstering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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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...
...even if Harvard had banned Napster, the upgrade would still have been needed...
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...