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U. of Oxford Bans Legal File-Sharing Service
By admin | January 22, 2010
U. of Oxford Bans Legal File-Sharing Service
Universities have been known to forbid illegal file sharing on their campuses, but the University of Oxford has decided to ban a music-sharing program that’s perfectly legal. Spotify, a popular music-streaming service that uses peer-to-peer technology, is now prohibited on the campus network because it was simply consuming too much bandwidth.
Ruth Collier, a spokeswoman for the university, explained that while students on campus have free Internet access, it is intended primarily for
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