Oxford University bans Spot...
01/18, 5:20pm
Spotify's popularity proves its undoing at Oxford
The IT department at Oxford University in the UK banned access to the free and unlimited streaming music service Spotify because it eats up too much bandwidth. While students who use Spotify are in an uproar over the ban, the Oxford University Computer Services (OUCS) defends its decision, saying a network upgrade is justified only by a "genuine academic requirement," rather than streaming Internet music services.