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  1. good news for university students! by Jeppe+Salvesen · · Score: 2 · on GNUTella Search Tool

    I was actually unaware of gnutella until right about now. Our university has banned napster. It was alledgedly taking too much network bandwidth. However, when gnutella takes off, they will wish they had set up some network policies to deal with napster. After all, web interfaces to gnutella use the http or ftp protocol for file transfer. They will have a heck of a time explainging to everyone that they are no longer allowed to download files!
    Furthermore - if gnutella is opensourced, the students will be able to change ports, effectively rendering any firewalling rules except the really restrictive kind, useless. When will they ever learn that style of net regulation is useless?
    -Jeppe

  2. good news for university students! by Jeppe+Salvesen · · Score: 2 · on GNUTella Search Tool

    I was actually unaware of gnutella until right about now. Our university has banned napster. It was alledgedly taking too much network bandwidth. However, when gnutella takes off, they will wish they had set up some network policies to deal with napster. After all, web interfaces to gnutella use the http or ftp protocol for file transfer. They will have a heck of a time explainging to everyone that they are no longer allowed to download files!
    Furthermore - if gnutella is opensourced, the students will be able to change ports, effectively rendering any firewalling rules except the really restrictive kind, useless. When will they ever learn that style of net regulation is useless?
    -Jeppe