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Universities Mull Official Role In Music Distribution

Posted by timothy on from the odd-business-for-them-to-be-in dept.

An anonymous reader writes "News.com.com is reporting that Universities are considering ways to bring legal Internet jukeboxes to dorm rooms, including entering deals with commercial service providers that would see online music charges included alongside tuition fees or picked up by the schools themselves." Reader ajkst1 adds that "meetings were held between college representatives, music industry reps, and online music services such as Apple's iTunes Music Store, Pressplay, and Listen.com. The discussion wasn't about why they should do it, but about how they should do it. Per-user licenses or a general fee to students were discussed to make it look like the music was free. I'm broke, so free is good. Paying more to go to school is bad."

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  1. This is GREAT!!! Now you all will stop stealing! by HanzoSan · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    Pay your taxes you greedy thieves!!

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  2. Re:Seen somewhere before. by rossz · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Vegans pay taxes that pay for meat inspections.


    I don't have a problem with that. We should add an extra tax on vegans just because they are idiots.
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  3. Re:Enjoy Free Legal Music with iRATE radio by GigsVT · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It sounds like a great idea, too bad it has the fatal flaw of being written in Java.

    I downloaded what was labelled as a "binary that wouldn't even need the JRE", and all I got were a bunch of .jar files. Oh well, rm -rf. Seriously, it's not 1996, why waste good ideas by writing them in Java?

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