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Rochester Signs Napster Deal, Hosts P2P Panel

Posted by simoniker on from the university-fun-and-games dept.

extra88 writes "Following in Penn State's footsteps, the University of Rochester has struck a deal to provide access to Napster's premium service for dormitory residents. From the press release: 'In addition, Napster and the University's prestigious Eastman School of Music will be developing ways in which Napster can begin to provide original content from Eastman students and faculty to service members across the entire Napster network.' What does this mean? Perhaps not coincidentally, the university is also hosting a panel discussion about P2P file sharing on Feb. 16. Cary Sherman from the RIAA, university administrators and others will be on the panel and there is to be a live audio stream of the event."

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  1. Didn't think they beat us... by Xuranova · · Score: 2, Informative

    I attend, Rochester Institute of Tech(RIT), which happens to be 10-15 mins from U of R, and our faculty has just been "discussing" the idea of dealing with Napster. I didn't think U of R would come out of nowhere and beat us to the punch like that. First they cap our bandwidth, then we get upstaged by some liberal school to the west! :(

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    "There is no real right or wrong, just what the majority accepts at the time."
    1. Re:Didn't think they beat us... by extra88 · · Score: 2, Informative

      The Provost of the university has gotten involved at the national level in disussions of peer-to-peer file sharing. This draws attention from companies like Napster and indicates he's interested hearing about their service.

      Don't worry, UofR still doesn't have email aliases (the address you get is the address you get), single sign-on (like RIT's DCE), or university web servers that are actually useful to students doing anything beyond static HTML.

  2. Won't make a dent in Kazaa Usage by use_compress · · Score: 4, Informative

    On napster, you can only get semi commerical/commercial music. The average college student demands far more for a file sharing service. With high speed access, the tempation is still there to download movies/software/porn which can't be done on Napster. While the students are downloading movies/software/porn, what would stop them from picking up a few tunes along the way?

  3. Still $0.99 a Song for Them by the1brian · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Permanent downloads--to burn to CDs or transfer to any of 60 portable music devices--can be purchased for 99 cents each or $9.95 for an album."

    They will get access to the Streams (whoop dee doo), which are the equivalent of radio, or shoutcast. It does also say though that they can download locally an unlimitted amount of songs though, so maybe they just can't burn or transfer them, but there are ways around that.

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    ~Brian
  4. ECN problems by evanbd · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's annoying. Apparently you can't access their web site with ECN turned on. In case it's causing problems for anyone else who turned on ECN in their kernel config, you can turn it off with 'echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn'. And yes, that does mean they are violating RFC 793. Anyway, if you're getting a connection refused error, and are using ECN, that's probably why. You can, as always, send complaints to webmaster@rochester.edu.

  5. tuition by Phyz · · Score: 2, Informative

    for those curious as to how bloodthirsty UR really is, tuition this year was on the order of ~24,000 ,which is higher than Harvard (Harvard students pay higher room and board). I live off campus, but getting that "we have to raise tuition by x% this year to better serve you" letter just pisses me off. How about they use some of their $1x10^9 endowment and drop tuition next year? How's that for a novel idea?