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Legal Music Sharing Returns To MIT

Posted by timothy on from the swallows-to-san-juan-capistrano dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Two MIT students relaunched MIT's believed-legal music sharing network today, using a Linux-based consumer audio device that also launches today as a commercial product. The 'Library Access to Music Project' (LAMP) system was first launched a year ago, but shut down after its content supplier encountered legal hurdles. The re-incarnated LAMP is based on StreetFire Sound's RBX1600, which network-enables multiple inexpensive consumer audio jukeboxes. So... what do you think? Does the new version look legal?"

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  1. Is it legal? by MountainMan101 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do they have an SCO license for their linux :-)

  2. Re:does it MATTER by jimicus · · Score: 4, Funny

    can always stand to throw enough .... lawyers

    Now there's a thought. If you throw a lawyer at someone and miss, does the lawyer bounce? Or just make a nasty squelching noise?

  3. Re:does it MATTER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    does the lawyer bounce? Or just make a nasty squelching noise?

    Depends on how hard you throw the lawyer.

  4. Re:does it MATTER by SenorCitizen · · Score: 5, Funny
    If you throw a lawyer at someone and miss, does the lawyer bounce? Or just make a nasty squelching noise?

    Neither. He'll just send you a bill.

  5. Re:does it MATTER by the_weasel · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hmm, I think the word you are looking for isn't 'bounce' or 'squelch'. It's 'ooze'.

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