Re:Is bandwidth the scapegoat for copywrite ??? (Score 2)

You're absolutely right that a large amount of bandwidth can be used downloading an ISO, but how often does that happen...once....maybe twice a month. And JPEGS are small files...hardly of any concern to a network admin. A group of 10 people surfing would have a hard time generating the amount of bandwidth used by a single napster server. Granted, napster is a great idea, and it does have its place, perhaps the university should have an internal napster server, and not allow access to the external ones, using the "free" 100Mbs bandwidth on the LAN. Bandwidth is an expensive thing, and single users screwing it up for the rest of the users because they want to set up their own private radio station is not condusive to a learning environment. If these users want to do this, then maybe they should invest in a DSL. Then they can pay for the amount of server that they want to run, without having to worry about the other people on the network being affected. -Z