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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. Re:Excuse me... by yourmom16 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    For god's sake, if you are going to go communist for college students, why not just imply that college students should get a free education, room, and board?

    Capitalism is the most effective way of distributing scarce resources, however when a resource is not scarce(music can be duplicated easily at practically no cost), there is no reason for capitalism.

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