If you have to ask, you don't serve students. The iBEAM MaxCaster media serving system provides clear benefits to college and university networks.
Students love technology and music online.
As an alternative to outright banning of download services, you can use iBEAM to offer students access to all sorts of pop and alternative music. So aside from avoiding the legal debate of file swapping, streaming presents less of a demand on your network than download sharing-especially when the streams are coming from a local MaxCaster. So you get bandwidth savings and your students get to enjoy the music they crave.