Re: [TCLUG:14628] RE: Napster

[Dave Sherohman <esper@usinternet.com>]

Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom said:
>         that's by *far* the best idea I've heard on the matter. anyone
> grabbing 100MB+ is pulling pr0n, warez, movies, or mp3s by the bucketload.
> doubtful that they're actually making use of much of that data.

...or installing Linux/doing an apt-get upgrade.  For that matter, I'm in
the middle of downloading a copy of viavoice from IBM - that's a 75M tar file
right there.  And if you lose your connection halfway through and restart,
there's 100M again (assuming you didn't cache it and don't have the ability
to continue the transfer instead of restarting).  And this is all legit
stuff.

If Napster uses a standard set of ports for client-client communication, my
vote for the best way of dealing with it is to throttle bandwidth on that
port or bump it down to a very low priority - go ahead and move whatever data
you want around, but if anyone else wants the bandwidth you're using, they
get the bandwidth and you get to wait for them. 

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