Napster at University of Rochester

Whatever, bring it on Napster - I could care less. :) In the end, iTunes will remain supreme!

I live right down the street from the U of R, and all I have to say is sorry guys, that really sucks.

Napster's really stepping up. This college student initiative is potentially a very powerful thing.

You get 'em free anyhow.... when you want to buy one... why not just buy it from Napster?

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So this is what their tuition is going towards. I think schools need to change their priorities.

is this where the students are forced to pay for the service as part of their 'technology fee'?

or is it really free for them...

I know people who go to U of R and there's a pretty good Mac contingent there. Man, that's bull****. Thing is, NO this isn't an "Apple or nothing..." rant here from me, I think it's stupid any University makes any type of "it's this choice or no choice" thing, it's BS. If someone wants to download from Napster, fine (they're dumb, but fine) or iTunes or even (shudder) MusicMatch. It's stupid that a University would buy into this service as such. For an institution of higher learning this is very dumb indeed!

Being a Rochester resident, I'd say tha'ts just another reason Rochester needs it's own Apple Store, Comp USA can bite me... unless I need to get my powerbook fixed after I dropped it, then they'll send it in and it'll come back practically refurbished... looks like we need both!

Originally posted by crees!
So this is what their tuition is going towards. I think schools need to change their priorities.

WHen I was in college, student fees went for this kind of stuff, not the frank tuition.

Anyway, iTunes needs to step it up, 'cause between the wide availablity, without installing new sw, of WMP, and these kind of deals, the iTunes success may not have much staying power....

this sucks. i am a student at penn state living in the dorms and recently they put up a firewall so that you can't use programs such as acquisition to download anything. they did this so that students would use napster instead. its really annoying since im on a mac and i can't use napster, not that i really want to, but its just principal that now i am stuck without anything. i can still use itunes but if im going to pay for something i would rather have a hard copy. anyway the napster service here is terrible because u cant download new songs u can only stream them which is annoying. ok im done

Originally posted by ~Shard~
Whatever, bring it on Napster - I could care less. :) In the end, iTunes will remain supreme!

Sorry, pet peeve of mine. It's "I couldN'T care less."

As a side note, Pepsi just aired their iTunes ad during American Idol. Huge audience- targeted!