University students are to Legal Music Services as Bush is to blank

jante99

From macrumors.com:



CNet reports that various Universities have been working on plans to offer legal music downloading services to college students.



Universities have been significantly affected by the proliferation of the file trading networks -- with increased bandwidth usage, as well as legal disputes with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). According to this article, there has already been a meeting between University officials and a number of online music service representatives -- including Apple Computer.



The May meeting underscored different expectations from both sides -- with University officials requesting a fixed-fee/unlimited download service. Licensing issues would apparently make this difficult to implement, according to music representatives.



Proposals from individual services (such as Apple) are to be returned to Universities, but details of final plans are unknown.



http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5059...g=fd_lede1_hed



In three years will Colleges advertise the amount of free content they offer to entice students to come to their school?



Or will Microsoft/freeplay/rhapsody corner the market and offer an expensive Windows only format that is forced on students by extremely tight network protections that halt all file swapping?



Napster rose to fame on college campuses maybe Apple's Music Store can do the same.

cubedude

If Apple doesn't screw up the deal, it could be big for them. I think that nothing will stop file sharing, short of killing the internet. But this could put a dent in it, depending on how much it costs the students.

cosmonut

...Trying to do the right thing.

adpowers

I hope they don't do this. From what I heard, this "service" would be tacked onto your admission into the college. I don't want to have to pay for it when I'm not pirating music to begin with. That is just like having to pay the RIAA tax on CD-Rs in Canada and Audio CD-Rs here.