The original Napster software emerged and blossomed on university campuses, so it seems only appropriate that one of Roxio’s first strategic steps with Napster 2.0 would be to return to the university — this time with a legal system that will provide music to students and faculty at Penn State University.Speaking in California at the annual Educause meeting of thousands of IT administrators from universities around the country, Penn State president Graham Spanier said the university has signed an agreement with Napster to launch a program in which Penn State will make Napster’s Premium Service available at no cost to its students.Napster will offer those students unlimited streaming and “tethered downloads” from a digital library of some 500,000 songs, as well as 40 streaming radio stations, access to six decades of Billboard chart data, an online magazine and community features. Students also can purchase permanent downloads that can be burned to CDs or transferred to portable devices for 99 cents each.”This will be the first step in a new, legal approach designed to meet student interest in getting extensive digital access to music,” Spanier said. “We have already set up student focus groups at Penn State who have been testing… Read full this story
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