Students at Oxford University will have to put up with a Spotify free existence from now on, after its IT department decided to ban the online music service.
Spotify has been accused of eating up too much bandwidth at Britain's oldest university, which has led the OUCS (Oxford University Computer Services) department to issue a ban.
Naxos, schmaxos
Speaking to Cherwell, the online site for Oxford University student news, a number of students have spoke of their anger over the ban with words like "shocked" and "discrimination" being bandied around.
One student, who is decidedly up in arms over the denial of Spotify access, said to Cherwell: "I use it loads. It's the most comprehensive collection of classical music in one place. Much better than Naxos."
Wise spending
OUCS has responded to criticism, noting that: "Bandwidth that seems insignificant for one user will soon add up when scaled up to the many thousands of users connected to Oxford University's networks.
"It is one thing attempting to justify a network upgrade on the basis of a genuine academic requirement, such as the petabytes of data expected from CERN when their latest collider comes online.
"Taxpayers and research councils tend to like to see their money being spent more wisely."
What's more wise than offering up free music to the UK's most priveleged? Sheesh, what's the world coming too?
Via TechCrunch
