Comment Re:Some schools have other reasons too... (Score 1) 112
I am at Smith College and apparently the bandwith was just sucked up by Napster last year so they blocked it over the summer - as for legal reasons? I doubt that the administration will touch it.
"Smith is listed among an estimated 30 percent of campuses, including Amherst and Hampshire, that are blocking access to Napster, the Internet library that many students use to download recorded music. "We weren't thrilled about blocking, but there was great concern that academic scholarship was being interrupted because of the [network] congestion," said Herb Nickles, executive director of Smith's information technology services." - Boston Globe
"Smith is listed among an estimated 30 percent of campuses, including Amherst and Hampshire, that are blocking access to Napster, the Internet library that many students use to download recorded music. "We weren't thrilled about blocking, but there was great concern that academic scholarship was being interrupted because of the [network] congestion," said Herb Nickles, executive director of Smith's information technology services." - Boston Globe
