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October 03, 2003

Good Idea

The University of Florida implemented an open source solution to the problem of file sharing by students on campus. Good idea, not just because of the copyright and liability issues, but for a few more pragmatic reasons as well.

"When we turned the program on, our bandwidth usage dropped by 85 percent," said Norbert Dunkel, director of housing and residence education for the university.

That's what I would consider an impressive drop in bandwidth.

Read the story.

Posted by zombyboy at October 3, 2003 12:53 PM | TrackBack

Comments

Didja see that it cuts off any server? No hosting a blog, no running a Quake server, your computer evidently has to be pure client. I'm guessing that all this is is a script that port scans... if it sees open ports it kills your connection.

Posted by: Matt Moore at October 4, 2003 04:11 AM