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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."

2 of 123 comments (clear)

  1. 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?

  2. 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