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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. Maybe they should be more like us at WPI..... by Yenhsrav_Keviv · · Score: 3, Informative

    over here, we've had a network filesharing program for years. Early on stuff like kazaa and other p2p programs were banned, and well, we started using Gnucleus's Lan client. Maybe they should do the same if they already haven't.

  2. Re:Excuse me... by Fnkmaster · · Score: 4, Informative
    They paid for music, $30,000 worth of music, and played it back in an analog, targeted-delivery format (not broadcast to the public). No different than playing the music over the music channels on the machines at the gym, or broadcasting it over an ultra-low-power (campus-area only) radio station. The only difference as far as I can tell is that you took turns being the "DJ".


    If the company they licensed the 30k worth of music from didn't have the rights to license it under these terms, then that's hardly MIT's fault.