Students Use Next-Gen Downloads

**Jason** · 04-05-2005, 11:57 AM

WASHINGTON -- College junior Kyle Taylor is downloading hundreds of songs by No Doubt, Bruce Springsteen and others onto the Compaq laptop in his cramped dormitory room. With a few more clicks of his mouse, Taylor is watching commercial-free Seinfeld episodes on his computer. In just minutes, he then downloads the entire movie A League of Their Own.

The 20-year-old is not breaking any laws. Nor is he at risk of expensive lawsuits brought by the entertainment industry over copyright violations.

Taylor and his classmates at American University -- and thousands more students at other U.S. colleges -- are among the earliest customers of a new generation of legal downloading services approved by the largest music labels and Hollywood studios. Students appear enthusiastic, despite some early kinks that can keep them from loading songs onto iPods.

"You can one-click-download an entire album, and the downloading time is, like, a minute," Taylor said. His laptop holds more than 3,000 songs.

http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0...w=wn_tophead_7

**norin** · 04-05-2005, 09:36 PM

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American University, for example, says only that money came from a generous, anonymous donor to the school in the nation's capital.

what better way than to spend our government's money than to pay for music and P2P software and service fees. i love it... makes me wish i was in school.

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Moreover, colleges are in fierce competition to enroll top students and fill empty dorm rooms, so they pitch music downloading to prospective students

a nice way of saying, come to school, get an education for a better paying job, and hey get some free music too while you're at it.

VeXeV · 04-06-2005, 01:41 PM

WOW!!!

I wish my school was like that!!!

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VeXeV Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Amsterdam Posts: 26 OS: Win98 & Apple OS x²	WOW!!! I wish my school was like that!!!