ARS Technica - More universities banning Skype
Skype, a simple and widely-used Internet phone program, is being banned from San Jose State University due to the amount of bandwidth consumption. Many students and faculty have been upset by this decision to block such great communications software that is and can be used for educational purposes. eBay owned Skype is looking to meet with the university to find a better solution to cut down on the amount of bandwidth used by the Skype clients which become supernodes. The makers of Skype also made Kazaa, a peer-to-peer file sharing application which began the use of fast-connected computers as supernodes to transfer network information between other nodes. By default any Skype client can become a supernode which will allow one's computer and bandwidth to be used for the greater good of the Skype network. It is because of this "feature" administrators of San Jose State University have decided to ban Skype. In addition to the excessive bandwidth uses of supernodes, the Skype End User License Agreement could easily be interpreted in such a way that would violate the university's network acceptable use policy.
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