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Napster Strikes Deal With GWU

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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  1. Re:one solution: Arkansas! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Come all you Missouri gals and listen to my noise
    Never you marry an Arkansas boy
    If you do, I'll tell you what it'll be
    Cold cornbread, molasses and sassafras tea (2)

    When you go a-courting I'll tell you how to dress
    A buckskin hinting shirt and this is the best
    An old flop hat with more brim than crown
    An old pair of shoes with the heals run down

    The first thing he does whenever he goes in
    He takes a chew of tobacco and he slobbers on his chin
    The first thing he says whenever he sits down,
    "Madam aint your johnny-cake a-baking too brown.

    They milk a little brindle cow and sling it in a gourd
    They put it in a corner and cover with a board
    Some gets little and some gets none
    And this is the way that the Arkansas is run

    An old board roof and a puncheon floor
    And old pole bedstead, and oak-board door
    Sleeping on the slats with a handful of straw
    Trying to get along with my mother-in-law

    An old blind mule and an old milk cow
    A razorback hog and a bull-tongue plough
    He had his polk salad and his sassafras tea
    But the Arkansas Sheik is a mystery to me

    Now I've sung you all my song and I guess you're glad its through
    The Arkansas Sheik is a feeling kind of blue
    He got drunk and he took him to town
    Cause the Arkansas girls turned his damper down

  2. Bush's new MP3: "flip flop boy" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bush is against a Homeland Security Department; then he's for it.
    Bush is against a 9/11 commission; then he's for it.
    Bush is against a WMD investigation; then he's for it.
    Bush is against nation building; then he's for it. (Even before 9/11 it
    was part of his foreign policy, PNAC. So drop the "everything changed
    after 9/11" malarky.)
    Bush said he'll provide money for first responders (emergency
    services); then he doesn't.
    Bush is against deficits; then he's for them.
    Bush is for free trade; then he's for tariffs on steel; then he's
    against them again.
    Bush said he'll reduce Greenhouse gases; then doesn't do it.
    Bush is for a patient's bill of rights then; then he fights against it.
    Bush say that "help is on the way" to the military; then he cuts
    benefits.
    Bush talks about helping education; then he cuts funding.
    Bush says the U.S. won't negotiate with North Korea; then he says we
    will.
    Bush campaigns at racist Bob Jones University; then says he shouldn't
    have.
    Bush says he will demand a U.N. Security Council vote on whether to
    sanction military action against Iraq; then he announces he won't call
    for a vote.
    Bush says the "mission accomplished" banner was put up by the Navy;
    then he admits it was his advance team.
    Bush is for fingerprinting and photographing Mexicans who enter the US;
    then he's against it.
    Bush is for a state's right to decide on gay marriage; then he's for
    amending the constitution to prevent it. (Cheney, whose daughter is a
    lesbian, shared this flippety-flop big time. "Gee thanks, dad." "Don't
    fret, hon, daddy's only playing up to the rubes!")

  3. Re:Slackware installation manual for Napster? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey cracker! I fucked yo momma in da azz, bitch!