iTunes Sharing at Colleges

Good. This means that they probably are being slowly driven away from kazaa and the like.

This makes me happy...another example of an evolving technological world and a kick in the teeth for record labels. Way to go Apple for pressing the envelope and changing the way computers (and music) work!
It's getting better all the time...

This is a feature that will soon be (quietly) dropped in a update. Mark my words.

the sharing feature does rock. At a café last week, i had seven libraries available. Very cool stuff.

i just hope the RIAA doesn't go after that feature. i can almost hear the execs complaining about disposable income, top demos and castrating sales.

I wonder how long before Apple has to put a stop to this as well.. which I think would suck!!! I just don't see.. although obviously more convenient.. it's like blasting your stereo (to share) or making cassette copies for your friends (to share) which has all been going on for many years !!

This is a good thing, a very good thing. More people with itunes, the better. This is giving apple a good reputation as a quality software developer, as well as a foot in the door in the windows world. They may not be seeing the financial benifits of it now from colleges and universities all over North America using itunes over LANs, but these students will be the ones buying the ipods and hopefully Macs in the near future.

Apple's underlying goal was to sell their products by getting to their consumers with itunes. Its working.

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i really hope RIAA will stay out of this and not squash it. they really need to get on with reality - digital music is here to stay. i don't condone piracy, but they need to do their part to adopt and change their business model. selling music CDs at $15+ is not a viable model any more and they need to come to terms with it. i see DVD movies routinely being sold for lower prices than CDs... how can that be? i see CD-R's for sale at 10 cents a disc. how can that be?

This type of sharing is illegal though just as Kazaa is. I guess that you could rationalize that it is not as bad as Kazaa because they are not actually copying the music just listening to it. Regardless I am working on a little pamphlet sheet thing to slip under dorm room doors advertising free music to get through the thick skulls of the other students here on my Windowss only campus. I don't think that the IT will mind the added internal bandwidth (shouldn't even be that high?) because finally this past week bandwidth used by students finally exceeded that of the Blaster Virus.

i doubt the college trend will result in a large increase in song sales, but it should get more people interested in apple and ipods. i know of many people at my university that have downloaded itunes, but none of them buy songs. everyone other than myself just downloads from kazaa or whatever service they use and then use itunnes to play and share the songs.

Originally posted by trebblekicked
the sharing feature does rock. At a café last week, i had seven libraries available. Very cool stuff.

i just hope the RIAA doesn't go after that feature. i can almost hear the execs complaining about disposable income, top demos and castrating sales.

It's my understanding that you can't download the music, so I don't see the problem? Even if someone develops a hack, Apple isn't offering the product as a download tool like Kazaa.

This is great for Apple. Maybe people will see how easy it is to use and look at other products by Apple. :cool: