Chris Salmon is unnerved as the internet reads his musical mindIt was revealed this week that Oxford University has added Spotify to its prohibited websites list because students were consuming so much of the university's bandwidth using the free music service. What many of Spotify's 2 million UK users may not realise is that the service is based on a peer-to-peer network, which means Spotify supports its own central servers by leaning on the bandwidth of its users. In other words, while you're ...
Guardian Music — Chris Salmon is unnerved as the internet reads his musical mindIt was revealed this week that Oxford University has added Spotify to its prohibited websites list because ... more info