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Oxford University has banned students from using the popular music download site Spotify.
OUCS – the university’s computing services department – said that the move was due to excessive bandwidth consumption when students access Spotify, especially when so many use it simultaneously. Its website states: "…the unauthorised use of peer-to-peer resource-sharing software on machines connected to the Oxford University Network is prohibited."
Although legal, Spotify falls under this category, as files are not located in a central memory bank – they are shared directly between users. One IT manager stated that Spotify “cannot be justified as being educational”, and because a network data upgrade would soon be required to accommodation for student use of the site, “taxpayers and research councils tend to like to see their money being spent more wisely”.
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