Jari Ketola
27 May 2003 16:10
Graham Spanier, the president of Pennsylvania State University, has proposed a scheme where universities would provide their students with a legal MP3 downloads within the campus network. The costs would be covered by increasing each student's fees by a few dollars. If the student wishes to burn the tracks on CD, he or she would have to pay extra.
Spanier's concept has two main goals: to provide an alternative to digital piracy, and, what seems to be the ultimate goal, to reduce the load P2P file sharing causes on the university networks.
Even though there's still alot to discuss with the music industry, Spanier expects pilot programs to begin as early as this fall at some universities.
Source:
Boston Globe