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Penn State Launches Napster Music Service
Owner of Azkaban writes "CNN has a story about PSU launching Napster for its own students." Also at live.psu.edu." This is the service we posted about last fall; in three days, the Penn State system has served more than 100,000 songs.
This is old news, I was using Napster years ago. And back then it was free! Of course, we had to walk 15 miles uphill both ways in snow to get our music over a 9600 baud connection...
Bah, I got nothing.
WWJD.... for a Klondike bar?
The SCO group and the RIAA have joined forces, and cross licensed each other's IP. the RIAA is now going to start randomly suing linux users, and SCO will be going after several thousand penn state students.
In other words, nothing has changed. move along now
Well, it looks like Napster is finally back, but only for "Educational Use Only"
From the state that brings you Hershey chocolate! Now they're bringing you something else to feed your laziness! I guess it's all about convenience.
You'll be telling me next that Cadbury have started producing chocolate!
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I like "clot into a larger territory".
I guess some people will not truely understand the different between copyright infringment and piracy until they are killed on the high seas by people with eye patches who go "Arrrrg!"
/. article without someone pointing out the difference between piracy and copyright infringement. Arrr!
I guess this wouldn't be a
The guy who is against copyright infringement is modded a "troll"
Whereas, the guy who:
- Misunderstands the fact that words' meanings evolve over time (probably one of those "hacker" vs "cracker" guys, too)
- Engages in silly borderline counterexamples in order to distract attention from the main topic at hand (this bit about "legally obtained MP3s") (remember: we're not talking about the general case here - we're talking about the case where ONE guy who KNOWS his son's behavior patterns has made a decision)
- Engages in ridiculous slippery slope arguments essentially (though perhaps with some miguided attempt at humor) equating a responsible parent with a terrorist.
is modded up as "insightful".What an upside down world this slashdot is.
I guess some people will not truely understand the different between copyright infringment and piracy until they are killed on the high seas by people with eye patches who go "Arrrrg!"
As a true sea lubbin' pirate, matey, I have to correct you in that the proper way of vocalizing our fervor would be "Yaaaar!"
The term "Arrrg!" is reserved for when a mislabeled MP3 suddenly blasts Celine Dion from the masts and me crew tries to kick down the door and have me walk the plank.
It's a tough life, aye.
My student fees support organizations devoted to fly-fishing, paintball, Basque eroticism, and BDSM. I don't participate in any of those clubs, but I still pay fees to help them out.
A while ago their was talk about the need for a hippocratic oath for programmers. However, most of the people talking about it were thinking about making programmers promise not to write software that could be used for bad things, like portscanners or whatever.
But the real Hippocratic oath doesn't say anything about only healing people if they will do good things. It says that a doctor must always serve the life and good of his patient, no matter the utilitarian arguments against it.
That is the oath that is needed for programmers. We act as agents for our users, and the software we write should serve it's users, not control them. I'm sure that your intentions are good and that the technology is cool, but by taking part in deploying a DRM system you have still broken this in my eyes.
What are the Mac users on campus saying about this? You're paying for it in your tuition fee, but you're paying so other people can enjoy the service, while you're left in the dust.
What's the university's attitude toward Mac users, the traditional sorry, not available on Macintosh or a more politically correct Mac support coming soon or the downright cruel sucks to be you?
It's a prison.
Wait, am I thinking of a State Pen.?
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