This is a issue about censorship. Oregon state university gets there funding from the goverment so they should respect the students first admendments rights. Napster is not illegal and I think the courts will validate that point. It's what the users do on there that is illegal. Should the residential computer network ban the use of IRC channels because of all the warez and mp3's that you can get from them? Should they ban Usenet because of the warez and mp3's that you can find on there. NO. If this was a ISP or a corporation then this would be a different issue and then I would say yea they have the right to ban then. But this is a goverment instution in a country where people have the right to the freedom of speach this shouldn't be happening. And the other students that go to osu and work for Audioglobe.com believe that this is the case. I also believe that the $75,000 cost of bandwidth based on peak usage is a bougus number that the university is throwing around.....if you check out nero.net then you can see that OSU doesn't even come close to a peak amount of bandwidth that would cost that much.......shit I've been ranting sorry guys....if you want you can e-mail me at hummertc@ucs.orst.edu to get more information about what is happening here at Oregon State University with napster Thanks for listening to me go off Christoher Hummert
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This is a issue about censorship. Oregon state university gets there funding from the goverment so they should respect the students first admendments rights. Napster is not illegal and I think the courts will validate that point. It's what the users do on there that is illegal. Should the residential computer network ban the use of IRC channels because of all the warez and mp3's that you can get from them? Should they ban Usenet because of the warez and mp3's that you can find on there. NO. If this was a ISP or a corporation then this would be a different issue and then I would say yea they have the right to ban then. But this is a goverment instution in a country where people have the right to the freedom of speach this shouldn't be happening. And the other students that go to osu and work for Audioglobe.com believe that this is the case. I also believe that the $75,000 cost of bandwidth based on peak usage is a bougus number that the university is throwing around.....if you check out nero.net then you can see that OSU doesn't even come close to a peak amount of bandwidth that would cost that much.......shit I've been ranting sorry guys....if you want you can e-mail me at hummertc@ucs.orst.edu to get more information about what is happening here at Oregon State University with napster Thanks for listening to me go off Christoher Hummert