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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...
...Internet, as a medium, is inherently two-way. Hosting a private server so that I can access my personal files remotely, running a public video game server so that I can shoot virtual rockets at my buddies and placing a webcam to show streaming video of my roommate's goldfish--these are all as much part of "the Internet" as browsing the web or leeching music. Indeed, these days, new personal computers come with free space to host a website. The Internet's potential as a means of obtaining information is great, but its potential as a means of self...
...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...