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Penn State Students to Get Free Music From Napster

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the all-in-the-groove dept.

Mr. Show writes "Napster and Penn State have unveiled a deal to give faculty and students free access to music beginning next spring. The deal would give students only limited access to downloads, so presumably most of the free music will come through the streaming service that would otherwise cost a monthly fee. Will this help curb piracy on college campuses?" It might, except for students that don't run Windows.

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  1. Re:There is no free lunch by Evil+Adrian · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If the fee is going up $160 per student to pay for this, they're being ripped off.

    READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE. The fee hasn't changed. Your stupidity is the stuff of legend.

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  2. Re:Sounds good, but ... by Joe+Tie. · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I've been using Linux since '95, and I (unlike most of the /. crowd) have come to grips with the fact that it is not a viable desktop solution.

    I've only been using it for three, and learned that different people are looking for different features for that holy grail of 'desktop viability'. I don't care if someone's using OS X, Windows, BeOS or whatever, don't tell me what's viable for MY desktop.

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