Legal Music Sharing Returns To MIT

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 24, 2004 @11:48PM 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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Serious potential by Pan+T.+Hose · 2004-10-24 23:53 · Score: 4, Informative

Notwithstanding the rather unfortunate name this project has a serious potential.

"Does the new version look legal?"

Of course it looks legal, but is it enough to avoid lawsuits? Very unlikely. MIT is the very place where the hacker culture were born, so obviously it is the first place for RIAA to keep an eye on.

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