UNC Starts Pilot File-Sharing Program
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Four schools in the University of North Carolina system will participate in a pilot program that allows students to download music, movies and other copyrighted material on the Internet for free.
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More colleges and universities are embracing music services for their students in an effort to cut down on peer-to-peer traffic that clogs school networks and puts students at risk for lawsuits. By Katie Dean.
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Berkeley, U. of Minn. students get download discounts; aim is to provide legal music alternatives. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - As an added bonus to returning to campus this fall, more than 80,000 college students
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In this era of high-speed Internet access, the back-to-school season features college students streaming back into their broadband-wired dormitory rooms, booting up their computers and letting gigabytes of digital tunes flow like a waterfall -- and for many students, the question of whether the downloading violates copyright laws plays second fiddle. However, a legal, affordable alternative has a chance to thrive in this potentially huge market, or at least that's what the digital music business and the universities are hoping.
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Aim is to give students easy access to "portable office" software suite designed to operate in Windows environment.
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Microsoft makes available a test version of the software, which can be installed on a spare computer to share music, movies and digital media throughout a house.
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The two companies have joined BitTorrent Device Partners, a licensing program aimed at creating devices that work with the file sharing service.
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NAPSTER creator SHAWN FANNING has revealed his plans for a new licensed file-sharing service with an almost unlimited selection of tracks.
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When three roommates at Brown University decided to start a music download Web site, the first thing they resolved was what it would not be like.
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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) launched its back-to-school, anti peer-to-peer (P2P) (define) campaign Tuesday with a national media briefing praising the efforts of a handful of colleges and universities to stop piracy.
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Paid music and movie download service launches today.
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The recording industry debuts a new carrot-and-stick approach for dealing with file-ripping students and the colleges and ISPs who know them. By Eliot Van Buskirk.
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Company launches free test version of service that fosters popular Internet activity.
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Princeton University has joined a growing list of colleges that have deals to allow students to download music free &#151; and legally.
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Napster founder Shawn Fanning's little dorm-room project at Northeastern University in Boston is the stuff of technological legend.
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Researchers aim to make file-sharing fairer by treating bandwidth like a currency.
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North Carolina State students are learning to build Web 2.0 business apps using IBM's Project Zero programming framework.