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...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...
This building block, which may be in place as early as this summer, would change the Napster experience markedly. When a user sends out a music file over the system, it will be "wrapped" in a protective layer. The layer will be a digital lock, similar to the encryption that keeps credit card numbers secure on the Internet. To open the file and get at the music, another user will need a digital key provided by Napster...
...HOLLIS II program, ALEPH 500, will be a completely web-based system--a shift that promises to make it a more user-friendly application, according to Susan Lee, chair of the HOLLIS Steering Committee. She said searches will become much more straightforward on the new system...
Despite the fact that ALEPH promises to be relatively user-friendly, Robinson said that a public service group will also probably be put together at some date close to the implementation of ALEPH for the purpose of training of students and faculty on the new system...
...purpose of the session, said Bill Ouchark, HASCS manager of networking and UNIX systems, would be to make sure people understand the enormous impact that outbound traffic is having on the network and to inform them of how they can be a responsible network user...