Campuses Seek Compromise Over Bandwidth Hog

By Sushuma March 2, 2000 10:15 AM

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(CNN)-As students and administrators square off over whether colleges should ban a popular music download program choking campus Internet networks, some have suggested a middle path: monitoring the bandwidth use of individual students.?University students across North America have taken to copying and sharing online songs with Napster, which easily downloads digital music in the MP3 format and allows users to trade MP3s with other Napster users.?But the program has slowed many academic computer networks to a crawl, prompting dozens of universities like San Diego State and the University of Chicago to ban it.?That action, however, has spurred a chorus of protests over what critics call university censorship.?Seeking a compromise, some universities are considering allowing access to the Internet software, provided students do not exceed their allotted bandwidth allowance.?More...

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