RE: [MLUG] Napster

["Roberts, Michael J. (IATS)" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Ummm, that's a very sensitive issue.  Greg Johnson might be able to answer
your questions better than I can.  Bottom line, if you are abusing the
service or breaking the law, then there are problems.  I did some extensive
research about why and how other school are blocking napster.  Most don't
want to deal with the massive amounts of bandwidth that it can eat up.
Since actual bandwidth to the Internet is very very expensive.

-mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Enickohasan [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 5:30 PM
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Subject: [MLUG] Napster


I was reading the article in Student News about MP3's and napster.  I
already knew that several colleges had banned it altogether.  I hope that
MU never goes this far but...

My real question is about how would you enforce a ban on a program like
this?  Can a university legally sniif out my traffic and see what I'm
downloading or what people are downloading from my computer?  Or would it
be more of a traffic monitoring to see how much goes in and out?

I'm not sure about what they can legally do with or without a search
warrant, so I was wondering if one of the awesome network admins that are
on this list could possibly shed more technological light on this than the
Student News could do.

Nick

I said, 'Hey listen to me.  Stay sane inside insanity.' 
But he locked the door and threw away the key.
		--Columbia

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