U. of Oxford Bans Legal File-Sharing Service

by E Wayne Ross on January 21, 2010

The Chronicle: U. of Oxford Bans Legal File-Sharing Service

Universities have been known to forbid illegal file sharing on their campuses, but the University of Oxford has decided to ban a music-sharing program that’s perfectly legal. Spotify, a popular music-streaming service that uses peer-to-peer technology, is now prohibited on the campus network because it was simply consuming too much bandwidth.