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Nap time for napster?

If you haven't been living in a cave for the past year or two, you've probably heard at least a couple stories about the various MP3 busts on college campuses. Well, now students are having to contend with another stumbling block to their freedom of music listening: Napster overload. This time, however, the problem's more clearly self-inflicted. So many college kids are using the Internet-based application to trade MP3s that it's tying up all the bandwidth for everyone else. If Napster could somehow help, say, sophomores finish their geology homework, matters would be different--but as it stands, some colleges have already started to block student access to Napster. Click on the link above to read what Wired reporter Chris Oakes has to say about the whole mess.

Fri, 11 Feb 2000 05:42:37 -0800