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Napster banned from Northwestern University 3 January 2000 Napster, a utility program that facilitates trading of MP3 files over the Internet, has been banned by Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Using the program requires connection to Napster’s servers and tends to generate a high volume of Internet traffic. Thomas Board, director of technology support services for Northwestern, wrote “Traffic to this one site [Napster’s] represented between 20 and 30 percent of total university traffic to the Internet.” Other schools, including the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, apparently also block access to Napster’s servers. Napster is the brainchild of 18 year old Shawn Fanning. Last month the Recording Industry Association of America announced that they are suing Napster, the company, for copyright infringement. | SonicNet archive | | Napster | | top of page | |
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