Penn State and Napster Offer 'Free' Music?
- Rosenberger said students will be able to stream music at no cost. They will also be able to download a song and move it to a digital music player for a brief period of time for free, he said. Students who want to download the song permanently or burn it to a CD, will have to pay "small fee," he said.
The service is said to be based on an agreement between Penn State and Napster, which offers an unlimited listening service to its customers for a fixed money fee. As noted in the quote, these songs are only available for use on the individual's computer, and may not be moved to digital players or burned to CD without additional fees. These songs also expire when service is discontinued.
The service will begin in January and will be funded through an existing $160/semester IT fee the students already pay. Additional information available: http://live.psu.edu/story/4583p
Like many college students, however, Penn State's students already seem to be taken by iTunes' local sharing abilities:
- Andrew DiSabitino (senior-civil engineering) uses iTunes sharing through a local network.
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"I don't even know how I'd improve upon [iTunes], it's great," he said.
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This does seem like a good deal for them... same logic... students who use Napster may eventually use it for their pay for download service.
One thing they need to know - they won't be able to use those songs on their iPod if they ever want one. Which could be a big negative.
Suddenly, Apple's local iTunes sharing may be the best feature they've added.... because it provides to all colleges what this napster deal provides to Penn State.
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Originally posted by arn
Napster's stepping it up too.
This does seem like a good deal for them... same logic... students who use Napster may eventually use it for their pay for download service.
One thing they need to know - they won't be able to use those songs on their iPod if they ever want one. Which could be a big negative.
Suddenly, Apple's local iTunes sharing may be the best feature they've added.... because it provides to all colleges what this napster deal provides to Penn State.
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NO iPod! Well then it's a waste of time!
curious to see how the students will react to this. no doubt some will claim that they'd rather have their IT fee reduced than be used for this kind of music subscription they don't need/want. not to mention parents if they are paying the tuition.
What about all the students who are still running NT/95/98/Me or Mac/Linux/Solaris/ect? While I'd bet a good 80 to 90% are running 2K or XP what is the school doing about the rest? If I was a student at Penn State I'd be asking for a partial refund of my fees. How do you Penn students feel about your fees going to this?
The service will begin in January and will be funded through an existing $160/semester IT fee the students already pay.
Wait a sec. Hold the phone. Stop the presses. So basically a student is being forced to PAY for it through this $160 per semester thing for IT. So in actuality they ARE paying for the music. Explain to me where the free is? And for those that don't care to use Napster are still paying for the music. Ummm I'd call that screwing the student over and I wouldn't exactly expect them to be too happy about it.
Originally posted by SiliconAddict
Wait a sec. Hold the phone. Stop the presses. So basically a student is being forced to PAY for it through this $160 per semester thing for IT. So in actuality they ARE paying for the music. Explain to me where the free is? And for those that don't care to use Napster are still paying for the music. Ummm I'd call that screwing the student over and I wouldn't exactly expect them to be too happy about it.
Yeah it's way to complicated--that's one of the reasons Napster 2 will fail. If you have to think about it--why bother?
I had a total of 6 PC friends today ask me about buying a new or used iPod as they want one for Christmas and get access to Music lib. since they already have iTunes 4.1
I know I've switch 12 folks into using iTunes 4.1 and dumping Winamp and out of that 12, 4 of them have bought new Mac's! I know of two others that are waiting for next G5's to come out next yr.
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