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Re:Napster.com banned at some universities for clogging netw... by LeoPanthera on Saturday September 25, 2021 @09:03PM (#28657490)
I was working in IT at a large British university when Spotify launched, and we had to block certain ports because early versions of Spotify used a peer to peer swarm to reduce the load on their servers, and it was so popular with students that it was completely jamming up the network.
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Re:Napster.com banned at some universities for clogging netw... by 4lun on Sunday September 26, 2021 @12:03AM (#28658308)
I remember hitting something like this in my student halls. Internet provider aggressively throttled any p2p traffic.

I had to use a VPN to get Spotify to play smoothly and not repeatedly buffer when playing a song.

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Re:Napster.com banned at some universities for clogging netw... by sn_master on Sunday September 26, 2021 @03:42AM (#28659134)
afaik Skype also was using peer-to-peer until Microsoft bought them.
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Re:Napster.com banned at some universities for clogging netw... by marcodiego on Sunday September 26, 2021 @11:35AM (#28661710)
I wonder if Skype would have survived had they used an open protocol.
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