Dell and Napster hook up
p2pnet.net News:- It’s getting harder and harder for students of any age to get an education in the US without being hammered by greedy corporate entities.
Senior US teaching institutions are relentlessly bombarded by the movie and music cartels which, under the pretext of saving students from lawsuits instigated by the cartels themselves, use school admin staffs to run PR campaigns and make sales pitches for commercial music ‘services’ such as Napster II which retail industry ‘product’.
Hollywood’s slick and venal Joint Committee of the Higher Education and Entertainment Communities keeps things moving.
Now, Dell has talked the University of Washington into using Dell gear to save students from the Big Four record labels.
Starting this fall, "Dell will sell subscriptions to Napster’s digital music service to colleges and universities at a discounted academic rate through Dell account executives," it says in a puff piece, which goes on.
"Colleges will be able to use Dell blade servers on campus to store music from Napster’s library locally, allowing network processing speed to remain fast while hundreds of students simultaneously download digital music."
According to UW president Mark Emmert it’s, "important for universities to establish mechanisms that provide our students with high quality, legal access to the growing body of content available in digital repositories worldwide. This relationship with Dell and Napster will provide us with a state-of-the-art approach to downloading music."
Incidentally, UW faculty, staff and students can also, "purchase discounted computer systems, electronics and DellTM DJ digital music players".
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See:-
any age – They’re brainwashing YOUR child, p2pnet, July 4, 2005
keeps things moving – University p2p ‘report’, p2pnet, August 25, 2004
Dell – Dell, Napster to Deliver Digital Music to U.S. College Campuses, p2pnet, July 4, 2005
July 7th, 2005 at 12:08 am
So now not only do we have unis burying the cost of corporate welfare into tuition but we have them actively pitching for them. No wonder the cost of getting an education is sky rocketting through the roof.
All in the name of protecting the young, you see. Accordingly, I would imagine that if you asked they could trot out the surveys that were taken for the industry and show where the college age group are the most likely candidates to use p2p, I would suppose. How else will they justify pimping for the mega-corporation?
July 7th, 2005 at 12:13 pm
“It’s getting harder and harder for students of any age to get an education in the US without being hammered by greedy corporate entities.”
Did a 15 year old write this article? No one is forcing college students to purchase a Napster subscription.