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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. Not Free by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    For those who read a little more closely, the service is not being offered for free. The cost of the monthly subscription is covered by the $160 service fee that on-campus students are required to pay if they want to hook up to the network.

    Presumably, Napster offered a steep discount on the $9.95 monthly fee, but I'm sure it's not free.

  2. Re:What if you don't have a 2K/XP box? by acaben · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just a quick note... My dad is the one who's working on the live.psu.edu site. It's running on apache and php on MacOS X Server. The server's getting hammered today, he says, but the machine's holding up quite well. It's a shame that open source and Mac technologies can be used to promote this new Napster program at PSU, and yet students with machines running similar OS's will be wasting their fees paying for a service they can't use. It's a shame PSU couldn't figure out way to work with the cross-platform iTunes Music store.