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On Napster Banning
by Maarten Goldstein, Feb 03, 2000 5:44am PSTIf you're a student at a college where administrators blocked Napster, maybe this guide I found will help you get past the blocking through a proxyserver. There's a section on starting a proxy server in Linux and they have links to Windows proxy servers too.
update: you can also try the following solution sent to us by Woburn, provided this is the way your school banned Napster too:
My college also blocked Napster, but we found an easy way around their ban because they only banned it through their name server. By simply adding:
208.184.216.238 www.napster.com
208.184.216.223 server.napster.com
to the "hosts.sam" file in my windows directory, then by renaming it to just "hosts". Napster works thank to this, and with IE i can get to the website, but for some reason Netscape doesn't work, and I just wanted Napster to work so I haven't bothered trying to make it work.
Comments
If you ever look at the people on \"T3 or greater\" in napster they have like 5 GB of bullshit pop.. Britney Spears (sorry Steve), Christina Aguilera, N\'Sync.... fuck that noise.
I support the idea of napster, I think the software kicks ass.. you can find all kinds of rare and bootleg shit, but the guys with the T3s, and the gigs and gigs of MP3s, is mostly whatever is on the radio anyway.
I hope you were just giving an off the wall figure. No offense.
In the 8 hours I had it on, about 5.7 gigs was transferred from me. That\'s nuts!!!
Thats what I had. Maybe if I was lucky, I caught 3 fucking seconds of some seminude bullshit on Showtime. Goddamn you kids !!!(See post #83) Now I can spank it to the latest Pamela Anderson streaming video. What has this world become for the love of God. Hey, in my day, www.realdoll.com cost about 15 bucks and if you laid on her to hard, the cheap ass japanese plastic ripped. YOU DAMN KIDS DONT KNOW HOW GOOD YOU GOT IT. When I was younger..., ah screw it ya tree huggin hippies.
Phil
They wouldn\'t make it this simple to get by if it was really a huge problem. I think it\'s so funny that now many kids are being kept from downloading songs that they hear on the radio, so now they spend all their free time playing copied/warezed pc games and burnt playstation games. What a world we live in.
for bandwidth used, its very is to do.
http://www.german-way.com/german/scientad.html
Hi, I\'m a whiny oppressed bitch and you\'re a Nazi. Everyone pay attention to me!
\"Give me 1 TB of bandwidth for mp3s and pr0n or I will sue you!\"
Thank god Internet 2 remains strictly academic. Of course that will probably change when the greenbacks start flying hardcore. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
It\'s all about the Benjamins, baby.
j/k
Phil
especially at the large public schools.
ever notice when you start up napster it says \"finding optimal server\" ?
/me slaps Thradar around with a stale Daikatana.
*hawkeye*
forget napster , get the clock or you\'ll be de-geeked and we all know you don\'t want that to happen/\\.
*hawkeye*
I go to the Universtiy of Illinois, and I\'m pretty sure my upload speeds are capped. It sucks a fatty. I\'m pretty sure that Napster stuff is blocked too, although they haven\'t come out and said it. Considering I haven\'t been able to connect to it for a week, I\'d say its a safe asumption. Plus, the \"hosts\" workaround didn\'t seem to work...
My school is a bandwidth bitch! Being right in the center of the Midwest, with huge pr0n pipes running to and from us to Chicago and other huge places, our bandwidth is worth a lot of money, and condsidering some of the bigger dorms are having net traffic of a gig a second during peak times, they\'re really cracking down on a lot of internet related stuff. Grrr...
How much is a CD really worth anyway? Nothing if you hate the music. maybe $2 if you just want the only good single on it, and maybe $8 bucks if it\'s all good baby and you want to reward the BAND not the ass raping label.
Until getting your hands on music is out of the contol of the profit raping labels and into the artists, things wont change much. It\'s got to get easier, cheaper, and more efficient.. (hm... I thought about not posting this halfassed short rant... but I\'ve decided to look kind of stupid and do it anway)
Keeping this stuff hidden does no one any good. Better to have it out there so everything can be more secure.
no. they can only bust you if you rip it.
otherwise it\'s just data, and you DIDN\'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS.
\"Napster PWNS me. Keep that rare stuff flowing. I wish I could log all of the Slayer downloads from me. Having all 11 albums PWNS my bandwidth.\"
Yeah, then the MPAA could bust you and all of them at once! Why do you think there\'s no logs? By the way, since the napster protocol is broken, it is trivial to set up a server as bait with all sorts of stuff people want and log all connections (i.e. the MPAA might do it). Of course you could always just run netstat -a in a loop before, but now it\'s much easier and automated.