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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Napster & other bandwidth hogs
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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