Comments on: Bill Approved: Universities Will Be Required To Offer “Students Music Services”

By: Per-Erik Broz

Per-Erik Broz — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:56:05 +0000

What about movies? Or software?

By: marc

marc — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:49:54 +0000

Why are colleges now in the music business, and why is the government basically guaranteeing a revenue stream for the music industry? This is absurd. I wish the US congress would spend a little less time on MP3s and baseball players, and a little more time on any of the dozens of issues that actually matter. Our politicians sure love to tout how we are the greatest nation on earth, but they sure dont spend much time trying to make it true.

By: Scott Easterday

Scott Easterday — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:27:42 +0000

I think our country all of a sudden got a little dumber. With rising tuition prices people can’t afford to go to school without Financial Aid. Congrats RIAA you made the US dumber.

By: Rager

Rager — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 05:49:06 +0000

Um, don’t you realize that they’ve already done away with the DRM on Ruckus?

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=RZi&q=mirakagi.zip&btnG=Search

Silly RIAA. Now college kids can have all the DRM-free music they want without getting sued for downloading it.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:02:00 +0000

Obviously the other option would be to have the universities pay a fee to the record companies, like a music tax on their internet, but that’s an equally terrible idea and there is absolutely no justification for giving universities more responsibility than the ISPs in managing illegal downloading. The RIAA needs to realize its legal place and shut up.

By: NetOperator Wibby

NetOperator Wibby — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:48:33 +0000

“Make a better mousetrap, and someone will create a better mouse.” And that’s exactly what I was thinking. ‘Nuff said.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:39:57 +0000

I know the students will have to pay for this indirectly for this new subscription through higher tuition feeds, but I wouldn’t have minded being given a subscription to a service that provided tons of quality music w/o hassle. You know it’s only a matter of time before intrepid college students manage to bypass the DRM and completely spoil the RIAA’s plans.

Make a better mousetrap, and someone will create a better mouse.

By: Matt K.

Matt K. — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:35:18 +0000

Huh, my university (Washington State University) already does this. They provide students with a subscription to Ruckus, which gives us a pretty good selection of music and such. But, understandably, the music is also DRM encoded, so we don’t really have rights to play it after leaving the university. But they did this on their own volition, it would be weird to have a law mandating this though.