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Kevin Davis '98, coordinator of residential computing for FAS Computer Services, said that although the new traffic-shaping policy is proving effective in keeping outbound traffic under control and improving overall network response times, it has caused students to encounter failures and delays when using peer-to-peer file transfer programs, web-to-phone services and video games...
Though it ruled out what had been most of Napster's case, the Feb. 12 decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals was not a mortal blow to the peer-to-peer model. But the next round of Napster-inspired lawsuits, some of which are already on the horizon, will soon reveal whether the decision was a one-time strike against a poster child for music piracy--or the beginning of a long crusade against promising technological advances...
...Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) had already sent more than 60 letters to ISPs of servers running OpenNap, an open-source program that uses the Napster protocol to provide similar peer-to-peer indexing. A user of OpenNap first employs any of a number of client programs (like Napster's MusicShare) to open up a hard drive for outside access; a list of contents are then uploaded to the OpenNap server, which does nothing but publish a directory of connected clients and offer a means of searching them. Any downloads are conducted between users, and the files--any file...
...Another problem is that peer-to-peer file sharing systems, like Napster, can allow porn to be posted at prearranged times on an unsuspecting host, then quickly removed. Breaking international rings takes agonizing coordination among multiple jurisdictions, many of which lack savvy cybercrime squads. And in some countries, laws and attitudes still lump adult pornography-which may reflect consensual activity-together with child pornography, "which is the picture of a crime scene, of a child being sexually assaulted," says Rachel O'Connell, director of research at the University of Central Lancashire's Cyberspace Research Unit...
...much of the Harvard experience is based on interpersonal relationships," Batty said. "There are lots of peer counseling groups, but there weren't any mediation groups...