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Napster Banned in Places of Higher Education
Posted by Heidi Chambers on August 30, 2000 at 5:01 PM   (printer friendly)

Deciding what college or university to attend is a tough choice for anyone to make, but now making that choice is getting a little tougher. What if the college that you have always dreamed of going to ... has banned Napster? It's happening to places of higher education all around the country.

In a recent study conducted by the Gartner Group, it was found that Napster has been banned at 34% of the nation's colleges and universities. The company polled 50 public and private schools and found that Napster is raising both moral and legal issues.

"I would not want to be the university president who neglected to update the school policy regarding music downloads this year. Long legal battles can be costly, and one school could easily be singled out to set legal precedent this year," said Robert Labatt, principal analyst for Gartner's e-Business Services group.

Here is a list at a few of the colleges and universities that have banned Napster: Arizona State University, Fresno State, Georgia State University, Hawaii Pacific, Kent State, New York University, University of Northwestern, Notre Dame, Oregon State University, Rice University, Santa Clara University, Seton Hall University, University of California, San Diego, University of Mississippi, University of Texas, University of Southern California, and Yale University.


User Comments (These do not necessarily reflect the beliefs of this site)

milladrive  
Date: August 30, 2000 @ 5:53 PM
It's not surprising.

Can't you just use an independent dial-up connection? Or don't I understand?

rob_n  
Date: August 30, 2000 @ 6:32 PM
Of course you could but i would imagine the schools network to be much faster.

Heidi  
Date: August 30, 2000 @ 6:34 PM
Yes, but there is usually a HUGE difference in using a dial up connection or the school's mutiple T1's, whatever they have, etc.

~Heidi

milladrive  
Date: August 30, 2000 @ 7:03 PM
Oh, of course, but I'm just sayin' there _are_ other options. :)

Rope  
Date: August 30, 2000 @ 7:51 PM
Those schools are for squares anyways...But how exactly do they ban Napster?

Chad  
Date: August 30, 2000 @ 7:59 PM
Well they block the "port" that the Napster client uses. I think...

MDMA  
Date: August 30, 2000 @ 10:06 PM
I don't give a f*ck. I still have the library's T3 to exploit. Whowhoowhoowhoo-hahahahahaha...

Anonymous  
Date: September 3, 2000 @ 6:26 PM
heh might as well add Pace, and no doubt Purchase, college to the list. Not only is napster banned, so is scour exchange it seems. It really sucks but for most ppl who are on those T1 or T3 lines, there still ARE places to grab MP3s, remember you DO have fast connections so those lil ratio sites ain't so bad now huh?

still sucks, but can you blame some of those colleges, napster sucks up a heckuva lot of their bandwidth. i hear there are ways 'round it but don't quote me.. search for yerself!

napsteruser  
Date: September 22, 2000 @ 8:50 AM
my school banned Napster but guess what that has not stopped all the students from using it. It is still accessable from different Browsers. So theses schools that have banned it are not really doing any good.