Jari Ketola
19 Jul 2004 15:43
Roxio's online music store Napster today announced that it has signed deals with six more colleges in the US. Penn State University and University of Rochester will be joined by Cornell University, George Washington University, Middlebury College in Vermont, University of Miami, University of Southern California and Wright State University (Ohio).
The Napster subscription allows students to play music online, but the tracks cannot be burned on CD for listening elsewhere.
The new deals prove that RIAA's lawsuits threats are effective. By suing thousands of individuals across the country, the Recording Industry Association of America has forced the universities to either face lawsuits or find legal means to provide music to their students.
Universities will probably soon end up signing similar deals with online movie providers, and who knows what. In the end it is always the students who end up paying for the services.
It is obvious that the legal online music stores are the way to go, but is threatening by lawsuits really the way to get people to use them?
Source: ZDNet