February 25, 2000
Students Jam College Networks With Use of Napster to Find Audio Files
Napster, a tool for finding MP3 audio files online, is causing headaches among network administrators -- not because of its potential for copyright infringement, but because when students use it en masse they can clog even high-bandwidth campus Internet connections.
A growing number of universities have responded to the resulting congestion by cutting off the software's access to the Internet.
The program runs on personal computers and allows a user to
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