Why do some schools block Spotify?

[AlTech]

So ESF (more on what it is later) blocked Spotify across all of its schools.

 

I happen to go an ESF school. So this is a real bummer. (Means i can only listen offline)

 

Why would anybody on earth block music streaming services in school?

 

It's so stupid ad so damn annoying.

 

Even spotify's website is blocked.

ESF is a company which specializes in schools and they own loads and loads of schools in Hong Kong.

[minibois]

Because of the same reason they would block YouTube, Minecraft.net or Steam. They don't want people to be on that stuff and get distracted.

 

inb4 "but I work better when I have music" yeah, me too. but some schools think otherwise or just dont want you to be on those sites

[Guest]

It takes alot of bandwidth?

[Jobbe03]

Having worked at multiple schools, this sounds more like a china exclusive thing, than a general problem. 

[KemoKa]

Because schools are places for learning? At least they understand that in China... Here in America, all school is, is a place to overdose on ecstasy and for students to have sex behind the lockers.

Yeah, music, sure, but you can get that online elsewhere and listen to it offline.

[AlTech]

Because of the same reason they would block YouTube, Minecraft.net or Steam. They don't want people to be on that stuff and get distracted.

 

inb4 "but I work better when I have music" yeah, me too. but some schools think otherwise or just dont want you to be on those sites

You know what? They don't block youtube or minecraft or origin or GOG. They do block stea.

 

 

It takes alot of bandwidth?

You can't be serious! It's music it's not freaking video! Music is like 7Mb maximum quality! Most use mediocre quality 2Mb!

[AlTech]

Because schools are places for learning? At least they understand that in China... Here in America, all school is, is a place to overdose on ecstasy and for students to have sex behind the lockers.

Yeah, music, sure, but you can get that online elsewhere and listen to it offline.

But I Learn better with music!

I can focus! I can conecentrate! Teachers have no problem with upper school students listening to music while doing work. Obviously i wouldn't listen to music during a presentation but i can when i'm drawing something or writing an essay.

 

 

Also FYI. Hong Kong isn't China. HK people have a tendency not to like mainland Chinese.

 

China is China. Hong Kong is Hong Kong.

[Wano97]

You know what? They don't block youtube or minecraft or origin or GOG. They do block stea.

 

 

You can't be serious! It's music it's not freaking video! Music is like 7Mb maximum quality! Most use mediocre quality 2Mb!

7 MB per song, listen to 10 songs that's 70 MB, let 10 students listen to 10 songs, that's 700 MB over 30 minutes-ish

[Guest]

You know what? They don't block youtube or minecraft or origin or GOG. They do block stea.

 

 

You can't be serious! It's music it's not freaking video! Music is like 7Mb maximum quality! Most use mediocre quality 2Mb!

I dont really use Spotify becuse it eats up my phone internet, i use Soundclound becuse it actually caches the music so that it dont take as much internet

[KemoKa]

But I Learn better with music!

I can focus! I can conecentrate! Teachers have no problem with upper school students listening to music while doing work. Obviously i wouldn't listen to music during a presentation but i can when i'm drawing something or writing an essay.

Yeah, that's what we figured. That's a fair argument, I guess, but apparently the schools just don't want all the students hogging up the bandwidth with Spotify. I mean, I know they must have a lot, because it's hong kong, but there are also presumably a lot of students... so... you can see where they're coming from.

 

[noisebomb44]

Maybe its a part of the chinafication?

Music is a form of art and uncensored political expression after all, which is something mainland china fears more than anything else

[Kirky2k15]

You know what? They don't block youtube or minecraft or origin or GOG. They do block stea.

 

 

You can't be serious! It's music it's not freaking video! Music is like 7Mb maximum quality! Most use mediocre quality 2Mb!

Some schools (UK) have 10mb symmetrical link shared between 1000+ students and staff...

[AlTech]

Some schools (UK) have 10mb symmetrical link shared between 1000+ students and staff...

I don't give a fuck about what internet people have in other countries. We have 40mb/s shitty WiFi and have 1200 students.

[DXMember]

because schools or for political puppets to learn how to behave like a herd of mindless sheep and to beat down creativity and independent thinking

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[AlTech]

I dont really use Spotify becuse it eats up my phone internet, i use Soundclound becuse it actually caches the music so that it dont take as much internet

I listen offline most of the time so no bandwidth there.

[Samppa221]

We have a 2/2 wifi for students.

 

(I got the password for the wifi where the school tablets are 80/80)

 

But really thats dumb to block it.

 

But if they would block something in our school i would be using cellular.

[soup]

Also FYI. Hong Kong isn't China.

 Oh yes it is . It may well be an autonomous territory but since the lease ran out in the late 90s it is no longer under British rule and was secceded to China to become

, ' Hong Kong special administrative region of the peoples republic of China '.

[Peter Vaughan Truslow]

streaming services consume ungodly amounts of bandwidth continuously. if you have 1000 people a gigabit link, if all of them are running a 128kbit music stream, when you factor in overhead, that's 15% directly to spotify.

it may not seam like a lot, but coupled with other services it can bring a network to its knees.

[Volbet]

Becuase the school wants its students to pay attention to the teachers? When I was in high school there was a bunch of students just sitting with their earbuds in and not paying attention to anything but Facebook. 

It can also be to preserve bandwith. Sure, a single client streaming from Spotify might not be a problem, but if a 1000+ students begin streaming it will bring the network to its knees.

 

Also, they probably haven't blacklisted Spotify particularly. They have probably just blocked some ports on the main rounter(s) and Spotify just so happen to use those ports for its traffic. 

[AlTech]

Becuase the school wants its students to pay attention to the teachers? When I was in high school there was a bunch of students just sitting with their earbuds in and not paying attention to anything but Facebook. 

It can also be to preserve bandwith. Sure, a single client streaming from Spotify might not be a problem, but if a 1000+ students begin streaming it will bring the network to its knees.

 

Also, they probably haven't blacklisted Spotify particularly. They have probably just blocked some ports on the main rounter(s) and Spotify just so happen to use those ports for its traffic. 

No. All the websites blocked are personally blacklisted by the IT department at ESF. Then they roll it out to all schools.

[AresKrieger]

Just put music on your device? That what most people do.

[noisebomb44]

because schools or for political puppets to learn how to behave like a herd of mindless sheep and to beat down creativity and independent thinking

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

not sure if the "baaa" meant you said it sarcastically, but its true that that is one objective that the chinease government has

[Samppa221]

You could try this webplayer link: https://play.spotify.com/?http=1

 

It should force it to use http aka port 80

 

Or they just block spotify.

[ShadowCaptain]

Probably because students are using government resources for their own entertainment that is not directly linked to their learning!

 

If you want to listen music, download the MP3s and if your teacher is ok with you listen to your music that way

 

Schools do not have to provide none educational resources to students!!!

[DXMember]

not sure if the "baaa" meant you said it sarcastically, but its true that that is one objective of the chinease government

the 'baaa' was meant as in the sound that sheeps make