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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.

    --
    Hold up, wait a minute, let me put some pimpin in it
  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. 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!