Students at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas, have been banned from surfing Rupert Murdoch's MySpace.com

MySpace.com has frequently been cited as a popular spot for sexual predators, but that's not why Del Mar has taken the action.

An investigation, "found that heavy traffic at MySpace.com was eating up too much bandwidth," the Associated Press says, quoting August Alfonso, the school's chief of information and technology, as saying 40% of daily Internet traffic at the college involved the site.

"This was more about us being able to offer Web-based instruction, and MySpace.com was slowing everything down," AP has Del Mar president Carlos Garcia saying.

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