Free Music Down LOads for Tigers

Colleges and Universities A-Z Princeton University
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<p>The University is close to finalizing a contract with a music downloading service to provide free subscriptions to the entire Princeton student body, Class of 2008 senator Rohan Joshi said in an interview yesterday.</p>

<p>The free downloads will be "tethered," meaning that they cannot be burned to a CD or downloaded to a portable device. Joshi said that the program, however, is still "great for making mixes and for big parties," and that students will be able to purchase music through the service as well.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/12/04/news/16830.shtml%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/12/04/news/16830.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>ehh...they've already done that for tons of schools...the whole no-burn thing just ruins everything</p>

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<p>umm does P'ton monitor Computer activity to make sure no one's using limewire or something?</p>

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<p>^hah cos that would suck...,</p>

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<ol>
<li><p>DRM is evil.</p></li>
<li><p>"Tethering" is really not hard to get around...</p></li>
<li><p>This is a waste.</p></li>
</ol>

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<p>^What he said.</p>

<p>Worst case scenario, you'd have to intercept and record the signals that go to your sound card, but it's definitely possible to get past stupid measures like that.</p>