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Putting an End to Peer-to-Peer

November 4, 2005, 3:21 pm

For institutions that can’t afford to spend too much money on bandwidth, file swapping isn’t just an ethical problem. It’s an infrastructure issue, too. At Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, campus officials decided to install a firewall that blocks the use of peer-to-peer networks—not because they worried about record-industry lawsuits, but because file sharing had slowed the campus network to a crawl. (The Online Rocket)

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