San Jose State University joins growing list of places where Skype is banned

[mandy]

In a move that has sparked protest from both students and professors, San Jose State University has become the latest California school to ban Skype from most of its campus. Citing concerns regarding security and consumption of bandwidth, school administrators feel that the service is an unnecessary and potentially illegal waste of resources. The University of California--Santa Barbara and California State University--Dominguez Hills have also recently banned the popular VoIP service.

In a memo seen by Ars Technica, the SJSU Office of Information Technology says that Skype and other applications which use "grid-computing-like" networking capabilities are to be banned, but VoIP applications such as Gizmo or Wengo are still permitted for use. The memo also states that Skype's EULA is far too broad, requiring users to grant Skype general "usage rights" to the SJSU network—something that end users do not have the right to do, as it is not their network. OIT also says that the changes to the XP firewall "may prove to be an excellent vector for a worm."...

full article: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060924-7814.html

[Anita]

Citing concerns regarding security and consumption of bandwidth, school administrators feel that the service is an unnecessary and potentially illegal waste of resources.

I think that article should be posted on the eBay boards.  :twistedevil:

[amy]

The memo also states that Skype's EULA is far too broad, requiring users to grant Skype general "usage rights" to the SJSU network—something that end users do not have the right to do, as it is not their network.

It should be banned unless either eBay/Skype or its users want to pay SJSU for the processor power Skype is using.

[FiberGuy]

In ebay's back yard... too funny!