Napster Strikes Deal With GWU

Posted by timothy on Saturday July 17, 2004 @12:04PM from the sleepytime dept.

ParticleMan911 writes "In an attempt to thwart illegal music downloads, GWU has struck a deal with Napster to allow every student living on campus a free subscription to Napster's streaming audio service. Every one of the 700,000 songs on Napster will be available to stream on each students' computer. GWU is not disclosing how much the streaming service, available to all users at $9.95/Month, is costing them, but the first year trial of the service has been donated by an anonymous donor. Will this method help get rid of illegal music downloads, or simply be a handy tool to use while your real mp3s are downloading?"

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Re:One in the same by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-17 12:31 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Pirates like you are the reason that Windows Longhorn is being delayed for so many years: Microsoft has to wait for DRM to worm its way into the hardware and BIOS so that people like you can no longer ripoff the stream from its rightful owner/licensor.
Your next Dell computer will have a DRM motherboard and a DRM BIOS to go with its DRM Longhorn, and you will like it, or else! There are greedy schmucks on both sides, but I lean towards the IP owners because thats all America has to sell or own anymore, and needs it to keep its tech lead. All the real work gets done in other countries.