[26860] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Napster & other bandwidth hogs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Mcadams)
Mon Jan 24 15:28:10 2000
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 15:26:06 -0500
From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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Thus spake Randy Bush
>> Since these apps are becoming more and more prevalent, as college students
>> are huge collectors of digital music, and as bandwidth is always a
>> concern, I am wondering what others in either the educational or business
>> community are doing in light of this.
>pretending we're in business, charging for bandwidth, and crying all
>the way to the bank.
>when the customer wants more of your product, and if you find this
>negative, then your business model needs re-evaluation.
Considering that his email address ended in ".edu" and was asking his
question as a representative of such an institution (which you
considerably cut out of your response ;), I would say that your
statement about his business model needing re-evaluation is a bit
uncalled for.
I will agree that you, as a business-person, would find the extra use of
bandwidth of something like napster nice because you then go on and
charge for the bandwidth...being in the business environment myself, I
wholeheartedly agree with that sentiment...but I also understand that
the original poster is not working from the same paradigm. :)
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