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Napster raged across the college circuit like a forest fire. College students throughout the U.S. were discovering Napster, and they couldn't get enough of it. At Oregon State University, Napster was taking up 10% of the school's Internet bandwidth by October, 1999. At Florida State University, Napster was consuming 20% to 30% of that school's pipes. Bob Foertsch, the computer-security officer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, says that at one point, it was hogging 75% to 80% of the university's bandwidth. By this time, Napster had passed the 1 million-download mark.
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Before now most Napster subscribers could only listen to their music after downloading the Napster software application on to their personal computers. This is similar to a model currently used by Apple'siTunes Music Store, which is the market leader with more than 70 percent of all digital music sales.
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That fall, it became clear that Napster had a whale by the tail. Colleges began banning it. At Iowa's Grinnell College, the situation got so bad that networking specialist Michael Pifer was forced to send out a letter explaining why it prohibited Napster on ResNet, a high-speed computer network Grinnell set up for its dorm rooms and college-owned campus buildings. ''Quite simply,'' wrote Pifer, ''Napster is eating up ALL available bandwidth.''
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