[WEB4LIB] FW: RE: Kazaa/Morpheus/et.al.

[Dan Lester]

Thanks for the comments so far.  I may not have communicated clearly
in my first message.  We have the ABILITY to block Kazaa or anything
else with Packeteer.  We don't have the PERMISSION to do so due to
campus politics, the "rights" of the dorm students to have
unrestricted acces, and so forth.  To a certain extent we're dealing
with dueling VPs.

What I'm MOST interested in is not the technology, but if any of you
in academic libraries have dealt with the politics, if any.  Or, if
you have any policies or documents, on the web or elsewhere that I
could see, that address this.

Yes, bandwidth is relatively cheap.  We could go from the equivalent
of 10 T-1s to a full T3  (i.e. from 15 MB to 45MB) for 24K to 42K a
year over the current charges.  However, there is some concern that
even that could be filled by Kazaa and similar.  There is also the
question of money.  We just had our budget cut 13% (the university,
not just the library), so money is very tight.

Anyway, thanks for the comments, both on and off list, and hope to get
some more about policies.  Do you limit Kazaa, for example, during day
and not at night, what percentage do you give to those services, and
so forth.  Personally, I'm VERY unhappy that the less than ten percent
who live on campus are ruining research and academic access for the
whole university.  Yeah, I know I often say that no one promised me
life would be fair, but that doesn't mean I don't want to correct the
wrongs that I can.

Ammunition for me, y'all?

thanks again

dan


Thursday, January 31, 2002, 7:50:03 AM, you wrote:
MGE> Lots of companies are going bust because they constructed way more data
MGE> lines than there is a market for, but the result is that we should be able
MGE> to make good deals for a long time.  That is if some of them stay in
MGE> business.
MGE> Good comment, Bill.  This, if there is funding, is the way to go.





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