UC System Chooses Mindawn Download Service

An anonymous reader writes "In hopes of stemming the tide of students freely sharing copyrighted multimedia files over their campus networks, the University of California (UC) system has selected an online music and video service that supports Windows, Mac OS, and Linux to provide downloadable music and video for its approximately 200,000 student population. Unlike iTunes (which only supports Mac OS X and Windows) and Napster (which is Windows-only), Mindawn works with Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. In addition, instead of providing downloads that are degraded by what is known as "lossy compression," downloads from Mindawn are offered in both Ogg Vorbis and FLAC formats." (Vorbis files are lossy too, though my tin ears can't always tell.)

Comments

Re:No real selection

[tomstdenis]

Conformist.

You're clearly not into the music but some sick form of groupy love child.

Here's a tip bupsy the ability to write a song isn't solely that of BMG or Sony Music [or ...].

There is a lot of talent out there [and no-talents but that exists in the "industry"] that doesn't or hasn't signed with a label.

Also metal is so 1980s. Cut your hair and join the rest of us in the 2000s ;-)

Tom