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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Oxford University surprises students with Spotify ban

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Like all other music-loving residents of North America, I spend half of every day foaming at the mouth with jealousy over Europe's access to the streaming music service Spotify. Well, now I have at least one university full of Europeans to be a little less jealous of: Oxford University has banned Spotify on campus. Was free, legal music undermining the historic school's educational mission? Nope, but it was apparently killing the school's bandwidth.

The ban was put into place with no advance warning, which further upset Oxford's population of music fans. It would be one thing to ban an illegal file-sharing service on campus - that happens all the time, in plenty of universities - but Spotify is an attractive legal alternative to pirating music. Will this result in an upswing of music torrenting on campus? (If any Oxford students are reading, can you tell us if torrents are blocked, too?)

[via TechCrunch Europe]
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