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Universities Mull Official Role In Music Distribution
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."
your university sweatshirt will have a corporate logo on it.
When deep space exploration ramps up, it will be corporations that name everything. The IBM Stellar Sphere. The Phiilip Morris Galaxy. Planet Starbucks
What's that? A wireless router? 256-bit encryption? I don't need the universities network to share music files any more? Sweet. By the way, I won't buy any online music until: A: It's cheaper than buying CD's at the store, including used CD's. B: The quality is at least that of CD's (such as 100% lossless FLAC compression) C: Has no DRM technology in it in any way shape or form. D: I can resell songs after I don't want them any more (commission free), just like I can resell used CD's.
Education? We do that in grad school now. Maybe in your day you could live with just a high school's worth of drinking and fucking, but it's the new millenium.By the time we graduate, there might even be jobs available for us. Today's seniors might be looking forward to another few years of cracked-out pandhandling, but we just can't bet on that to continue.Better safe than sorry, after all. The last time we forgot to pamper our college population, we got the 80s. Do you want another 1980s? Do you? The pants! For the love of God, THE PANTS!
(Actually, 80s collegiates [rich ones, anyway] were nicely pampered. I just wanted an excuse to write "THE PANTS!" and link to than picture. Those are some fucked up 80s pants, man. Shit.)