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Re: Napster & other bandwidth hogs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ken harris.)
Mon Jan 24 18:37:21 2000

To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 15:35:35 -0800 (PST)
Cc: rbek@gborocollege.edu
From: "ken harris." <ken@arpa.com>
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Ryan Bek [12:57 PM 1/24/00 -0500] wrote:
:I (and I presume many others) have had concerns brought to us about the 
:bandwidth hogging apps & services, like Napster Music Community.  As many have 
:discovered, applications such as these can consume a good deal of a broadband 
:connection, as users can serve up files from their own machines, subverting 
:normal firewall configs that can prevent undesired behind-the-firewall 
:serving.

there was a c|net report on just this the other day.
it actually is directly related to universities.

school's crack down on net music software napster
< http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1527930.html?tag=st.ne.1002. >

:-Ryan-

-ken harris
!k < ken at arpa dot com >



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