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Penn State Students to Get Free Music From Napster
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.
You must be a Gay Nigger
Why on earth wouldn't you run windows on the desktop unless you really enjoy pain and suffering?
i think they need a new marketing department. do they really think students are stupid enough to lock themselves into this. just because its 'free' dosent mean its 'free'. if you want to shut down crappy DRM, boycott this. fucking RIAA. at least the ITMS is going in the right direction.
I want 2D games back.
Grow up douchebag, learn to spell, and stop using those fucking smiley emoticons like some arrested development teenage girl.
The gay is strong with this one.
You're so fucked up in your reasoning I don't even know where to begin. What you're saying is like "when I take a piss, I'm handling a penis. Therefore I must be gay."
You're so fucking stupid you obviously went to a state college and not a private one, if you even made it out of high school.
Your tax money isn't going to Napster. Penn State isn't using tax payer money for Napster. Napster at Penn State is not being pad for with tax payer money. The money that is of the taxpayer does not contribute to the servie that is Napster at PSU. If you pay taxes, that tax money is not given to Penn State University to use for the Napster service.
PA and the Feds give money to PSU and say "this is for books" or "this is for the aquarium" or some such shit. Yeah, not that simplistic but I know you can't handle much beyond that. PSU isn't given a big fat check of taxpayer money and told "Here ya go! Do whatever the fuck you want to with it!" They have specific purposes for their state-given dollars.
You have no more right to say what PSU does with its money than you do telling me how to spend my money. I dunno, maybe you're a democrat and that would explain it, they seem to have plans for everyone else's money. But if you want to have a say in what PSU does with the state given money go ahead, but they sure as fuck aren't using academic money to provide some musical dick-sucking service to the students.
Yeah, by your fucked up logic there is probably some kid there on a government loan or grant, so I guess you feel you have a right to hover over his shoulder and tell him what to do all day, being a tax payer and all. Maybe you should steal his books and read them, since technically you paid for them. Or you can go sleep in the dorms and stop paying rent, because its your money paying to heat the dorms.
You are so fucking stupid I'm tired of talking down to your fucktwit level. Tell your mom to stop fucking her brother.
There is no need to cut ANYTHING at a university in order to raise money these days! All you do is let some affirmative action students in who don't belong there. They pay tuition (well, you and I do) and then they fail out right away. Yeah, you gotta put up with them for a few days but the school gets the money but only has to provide services for a short while! I thought everyone knew this. Affirmative action is great for serious students because AF money comes into the system, but they're all so dumb they can't make it through! PSU is probably looking to increase their minority ratio by a little bit just to pay for this Napster bullshit.
The music industry obviously considers students (and anyone) that don't run Windows (or Mac) to not be part of the market they are trying to sell to.
...So since they aren't expecting any revenues from Linux and BSD users, they surely have no basis to claim a loss of revenue from any piracy by people in that group.
Okay, I usually stay out of the fray, but this was exceptionally stupid. Fact is, Pogo, the music industry (and every other industry on the planet) go for the fat part of the market first. That's Wintel. With Mac as a distant second. Duh. They'll get to the rest of the market sooner or later. Just hold your breath.
In the meantime... thanks for repealing the laws on property (yes, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, there I said it, it's PROPERTY) for anyone who feels they're not currently served by the owners of that property.
Hey, poor white trailer trash! Mercedes, BMW and Lexus don't expect to be able to sell cars to you! Steal all you like!
Hehehe...wtf?
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The funds the university receives from the students should be spent in a way that benefits the students academically.
OK, so no more yearbook committee, no more school social dances, no more school newspaper, because they don't benefit the students academically.
You are making no sense.
evil adrian
Most private universities have a yearbook and social dances and other events.
Unless you went to community college, which explains why you didn't know that.
evil adrian
They may do that, but they are not academic, which was the entire crux of the retarded argument I was dismantling.
And music has mental health benefits, do your homework.
evil adrian