Dell and Napster Going Directly to Colleges

An Anonymous Reader writes "Forbes is reporting on the teaming of Dell and Napster to provide music directly to college campuses. The solution will alleviate network bottlenecks caused by illegal music downloads will enable colleges to use Dell blade servers on campus to store music from Napster's library locally. This will allow network processing speed to remain fast while hundreds of students simultaneously download digital music." From the article: "Campuses were 'shrinking the [available] bandwidth on the network to discourage' illegal downloading, says John Mullen, vice president of Dell's higher education business. He says schools want a way to minimize the impact of music downloads on their networks and encourage students to shift toward legal downloads."

Comments

If you illegally download music...

[Sierpinski]

You might get a visit from Steve, who might say:

"Dude, You're gettin' a Cell!"

I wonder which is worse anyway, downloading music, or Smoking pot. Good job, Steve!

Good solution!

[DoorFrame]

So you're saying that the schools should, in addition to music, archive warez iso, dvd rips of movies, dvd images and porn locally to reduce stress on the bandwidth? This is a great idea. I just don't know if Dell is going to be as excited about teaming up with the goatse guy to deliver local, hi-quality porn as they were to team up with Napster.

Maybe the goatse guy can partner with apple? They seem to have some unique market penetration these days.