Re: Napster & other bandwidth hogs

["ken harris." <ken () arpa com>]

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 >