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MIT's Music Net Shut Down Over License Issues

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the easy-come-easy-go dept.

aurum42 writes "MIT's LAMP music-over-cable initiative has been shut down due to licensing concerns, as reported on The Boston Globe. Ars Technica has a good summary of the story. It appears that Loudeye did not have the rights to sell music to MIT for distribution over cable, although they apparently assured MIT that they did in fact have those rights. Murky, unexplored legal quagmire or RIAA influenced revisionism?"

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  1. Is it just me by jlechem · · Score: 5, Funny

    or doesn't MIT usually let these kinds of things go. I mean come on they're the College who have a subdomain called fuck-the-skull-of-jesus.mit.edu. I really hope the RIAA hasn't managed to actually influence them in any way.

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    1. Re:Is it just me by amabbi · · Score: 2, Funny

      according to mit's database, that machine is registered and run by a student living on-campus, so its existence has no bearing on what the administration feels or will do. they aren't stupid enough to willfully ignore the law if, in fact, the LAMP project is illegal.

    2. Re:Is it just me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Crap! Slashdot has a subdomain like that too!

  2. Re:Like this is going to stop them... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dealing with a few bitter music fans is bad enough; a college campus full could be their undoing...

    Not any college campus, a bunch of pissed off MIT nerds isn't my idea of fun :)

    ~metlin

  3. Re:RIAA vs MIT by metlin · · Score: 2, Funny

    The RIAA is trying to make an example out of MIT

    Wrong school to pick! Oh wait, that would be Harvard Law school ;-)

  4. What???? by armando_wall · · Score: 2, Funny

    MIT Music is down?????

    I don't wanna go back to FM Radio or listening to CDs!!

  5. Re:Excuse me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's wrong with a free education? Obviously if more people were educated then you'd have less dimwitted salespersons to poke fingers at. Besides, you've got a real poor understanding of communism if you think free monopolistic-busting music access would suddenly turn the US into something that Lenin would be fond of. You'd need huge corporate cartels controlling all media access and invasive laws that allowed the government to arrest anyone without judicial review.

    Oh wait, I guess we're farther along than I thought Comrade Moe! I didn't realize that you were advocating the Revolution!

  6. For gods sake? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    " Why, again, do the slashdot editors seem to imply that college students should have free access to commercial free music? "

    Why do people think a performance of music is worth more than the air that carries it?

    I certainly don't.

    The RIAA may disagree, but that seems to be their problem, not mine. After all, I think my time is worth a million dollars an hour. My job is practically stealing from me by paying me only $101,000 a year. Now if I could only get a law passed that said my company had to employee me and they had to pay whatever I wanted, then life would be sweet and I'd be rich.

    What? They're outsourcing me to India? Damn. Its like stealing! Lets have a congressional hearing!

    That would be sweet!

  7. Turf War? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
    Kelly Mullens, a spokeswoman for Vivendi Universal's Universal Music Group, said, "It is unfortunate that MIT launched a service in an attempt to avoid paying recording artists, union musicians and record labels.

    How dare they step on RIAA turf? Avoiding paying artists and union musicians has always been the job of the RIAA member labels!

  8. They will go bankrupt by YanceyAI · · Score: 2, Funny

    trying to sue every new attempt that MIT students come up with.

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