Word: servers
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...network--has led to a congestion of sorts. File-sharing is one prominent source of such traffic; students who share their music collection through Napster utilize bandwidth even when they aren't the ones who are actively downloading. The same holds true for hosting a website or FTP server. Since bandwidth is a finite resource, it acts in many ways like a highway. Increases in traffic lead to congestion, which in turn leads to a general slowdown and lots of angry users...
...makes it even harder for the Big Five's copyright lawyers to lay their hands on them. Pending the judge's rejiggering of her injunction order, the suits appear to have caught up to Napster; how will they catch up to Gnutella? And what happens when somebody transplants their server farm to Antigua...
...downloading a lot of songs this weekend, and the server was pretty slow," Friberg said...
...profit private organization that was formed in 1998, ICANN was created with a nine-member initial board that included Wilson. ICANN is a global body that oversees the technical management of World Wide Web domain names, IP address space, root server management and other administrative Internet tasks...
Becoming part of a distributed-computing network is easy. You simply log onto a website and download free data-crunching software that doubles as a snazzy screensaver. Anytime you go online after that, the computer contacts a server that beams you a small packet of data for your PC to analyze. The calculations are performed whenever your computer is idle; the next time you log on, the results are beamed back to the server, where they are combined with those sent in by other PCs. Like any other screensaver, the system is utterly unobtrusive. Tap a key, touch a mouse...