Students Against University Censorship have

  • Students Against University Censorship have put up a site protesting the blockage of bandwidth hogging mp3 trading sites, like napster.com, at many major universities (including mine, University of Illinois).
    On it’s face this appears to be simply a case of bandwidth restriction and copyright–Universities need to preserve their bandwidth for academic purposes and avoid copyright violation liabilities. But is it? Could this be part of a slippery slope towards closing off other sites to students–chat rooms, streaming audio or video, pornography?
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