UC SANTA CRUZ KEEPS NAPSTER

3/9/00 - I have been in talks with various IT policy officers and university network administrators lately. I recently got an e-mail from a network administrator at UC Santa Cruz. Here is what he had to say: "We have decided for the time being to limit Napster serving to 500 Kb/s and downloading to 2 Mb/s. Our network managers estimate between 30% and 40% of our out-bound traffic was Napster related, and about 10% in-bound. The day before we installed this limit I had a list of 10 students who violated our bandwidth policy (1G per day out-bound) and the day after only 1. We feel this will help keep our bandwidth consumption down to reasonable levels while still allowing people to use software like Napster." It's good to see universities like UC Santa Cruz, USC, and SUNY at Albany take the time to make the right choice to solve their bandwidth problems. Putting bandwidth caps and educating the students is much more productive and proactive in the long run. Making students responsible for their actions is what will prepare them for the real world. Keep up the great work UC Santa Cruz. Petition count: 10,518.