Bandwidth Scarcity, The Latest Excuse For Banning MySpace
doubt-it dept Mon, Apr 24th 2006 2:49pm — Joseph Weisenthal There have been plenty of stories of schools worrying about MySpace and banning students from accessing the site. Their concerns are well documented, but a community college in Texas has come up with a new reason to ban it; they claim that MySpace is a bandwidth hog, slowing down the school's network. This is the same reason given by universities for banning file trading, though that actually involves the transfer of large files. Most likely, bans on file trading have more to do with the legal liability, while the MySpace ban is mo...
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