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Penn State Launches Napster Music Service

Posted by timothy on from the so-that's-what-college-was-for dept.

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.

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  1. Duh.... by flewp · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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    WWJD.... for a Klondike bar?
  2. This just in by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  3. Napster is back by grey3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, it looks like Napster is finally back, but only for "Educational Use Only"

  4. I must get some of that! by carndearg · · Score: 3, Funny
    I thought Hershey produced those cocoa flavoured sugar candy bars that make such a good alternative to Kendal Mint Cake when I'm over there. The news that they also make chocolate is most welcome, I must try to find some next time I'm somewhere I can spend dollars.
    You'll be telling me next that Cadbury have started producing chocolate!

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  5. Re:Some Cool Technical Stuff by hanssprudel · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.