Penn State Buys Napster for Student Body - But Do They Want It?

November 07, 2003

News.com reports that students at Penn State don't want their tuition money spent to protect them from RIAA lawsuits. The school's intention was to offer a legal alternative to downloading from services like Kazaa, but those who will not use the new Napster feel that subsidizing this services is a misuse of their mandatory student fees. Adding this news to that of the now on-hold LAMP program at MIT, the future of music on demand at universities is still a mystery.

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