I don't know that there's such a thing as throwing enough bandwidth at it to get away with not managing it. In our environment, we could have gone out and bought a full T3 and still filled it. It wouldn't take a larger population than ours to do that, says Spitzer. The IT department expects to double bandwidth every year or so, but to accommodate the natural progression of bandwidth demand, not the subsidizing of digital music collections. When dealing with a pack of wild dogs, a little innovation can be crucial to emerging intact.
Free music is great, but network sanity is even better.