taking a Napster

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From: v - Mark Kuharich (mkuharich@punchnetworks.com)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 11:51:45 PST


Just as, a decade ago, Tim Berners-Lee came up with a generic system for the
distribution and location of documents - the Web - the geniuses at Napster
have solved the problem for media objects
http://www.feedmag.com/daily/dy021000_master.html
Indiana University banned Napster because the students were using half of
its bandwidth using this application
http://idsnews.com/news/2000.02.11/campus/2000.02.11.block.html
Students then organize a petition against censorship
http://wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,34382,00.html

Mark Kuharich

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