MIT's Music Net Shut Down Over License Issues

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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Hate to say we told you so...

[Valar]

But we told you so!

(-1, Redundant, blah blah blah [come on, get me, I have karma to burn (No, Really, go for it)])

MIT conspiracy

[Unixinvid]

First of all the MIT system uses some of the systems of HAVARDNET which is a subsiderary of Microsoft. A lot of has to be due to big business relation to this and they are worry that the RIAA is going to sue them and MIT for copywright violation. So its from Coporate sponsership that this resulted in this shutdown of the cable service.

Surprise!

[Duncan3]

Turns out a couple college kids aren't smarter then the RIAA after all. I'm shocked, really. I'm sure they are too.

But everyone here knew it couldn't last, only geeks are bored enough to work for free, musicians need money for drugs.

They did however get enough fame out of it to last them a good long time. And that's what it's really all about in the business world. As long as you can get to the CNBC studio _before_ they shut you down, you're golden.