Re: [TCLUG:14628] RE: Napster

[Gabe Turner (officer) <dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu>]

Ah, just blocking the port would be great, but napster lets you set the port arbitrarily...

Gabe

> 
> 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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Gabe Turner <dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu>       
U of MN Csci/IT Systems Staff
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