Entertainment Industry Gets In The Way Of Education At Penn State
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Penn State, Napster Ink Pact
Penn State, Napster Ink Pact
11/06/2003 07:21 PMPenn State students will receive a free subscription to Napster as a
way of curtailing illegal music downloads on campus. The deal could
pave the way for similar services at other schools. By Katie Dean.
Napster to provide music to Penn State
Napster to provide music to Penn State
11/07/2003 02:05 AM During a panel presentation on peer-to-peer file
sharing at the Educause
conference this morning,
Graham Spanier , President of The
Pennsylvania State University , announced a deal with Napster that will give Penn State
students access to music for $.99 per song downloaded. A Penn State
press release outlines
the way in which the service is expected to work:
• Students living in residence halls at a
dozen Penn State campuses will be able to participate initially.
• Unlimited streaming of music files will be available from
Napster’s inventory of more than 500,000 songs.
• Tethered downloading is included at no additional charge.
This means a student can download and keep the music files on up to
three personal computers. These songs can be burned to CDs or
transferred to portable devices if purchased for 99 cents each.
Penn State plans to roll out a pilot of the program
beginning in January. The deal is being promoted as a way to provide
students with the ability to download music legally while addressing
issues of bandwidth overload.
Penn State Students to Get Free Music
From Napster
Penn State Students to Get Free Music
From Napster
11/06/2003 09:35 PMMr. Show writes "Napster and Penn State have unveiled a deal to give
faculty and students free access to music beginning next spring. The
deal would give ...
Penn State students blast Napster deal
Penn State students blast Napster deal
11/06/2003 10:46 PMCNET Nov 6 2003 10:42PM ET
Penn State Students Pissed Off About
Napster Deal
Penn State Students Pissed Off About
Napster Deal
11/07/2003 03:13 AMThis probably wasn't what administrators at Penn State were expecting
after working out the deal to let on-campus students
acces
s Napster music streams without charge to the students. Instead
of being happy, many Penn State students are
pisse
d off at administrators for wasting their money. Despite the Penn
State claims that the service is "free", clearly the university is
paying for the service, and those fees will be reflected in tuition -
or at least, they'll be withheld from something else on campus. The
students say they don't want to be
forced to pay money to a
recording industry they don't agree with, who is giving them something
of extremely limited value (no downloads, just a limited choice of
streams - and only if you happen to be on campus).
Penn State and Napster Offer 'Free'
Music?
Penn State and Napster Offer 'Free'
Music?
11/06/2003 03:57 PM
Excite.com reports that Penn State University is planning to offer
"free digital music listening and limited downloading" to their
students..
Rosen...
Penn State inks Napster deal for
students
Penn State inks Napster deal for
students
11/10/2003 11:12 PMToday it came to light that Penn State has reached a deal with Napster
to provide its students with access to the new online music
service/store.
Penn State to offer Napster service to
students
Penn State to offer Napster service to
students
11/06/2003 09:58 AMStudents at Pennsylvania State University will soon be able to listen
to digital music through the recently relaunched Napster 2.0 free of
charge. The existence of Penn State's new online music service with
Napster was confirmed Thursday by an announcement posted on the
University's Web site. The details of the service are expected to be
outlined by University President Graham Spanier at 02:15 p.m. Eastern
time, after Spanier's scheduled appearance at a technology conference
in Anaheim, California.
Napster, Penn State reportedly in music
pact
Napster, Penn State reportedly in music
pact
11/05/2003 10:34 PMCNET Nov 5 2003 10:18PM ET
Penn State warns students off of
Internet Explorer
Penn State warns students off of
Internet Explorer
12/19/2004 03:46 PMPenn State is advising its students to drop Internet Explorer in favor
of alternative browsers. The decision to advise against IE use arises
out of concerns about security.
A Slashdot post about how Penn State
students log on to Napster 2.0
A Slashdot post about how Penn State
students log on to Napster 2.0
01/16/2004 10:57 AMA
Slashdot post about how Penn State students log on to Napster 2.0
gives a glimpse of one possible future of identity management, and
it's damn complicated.
Napster and Penn State Announce Free
Music Deal
Napster and Penn State Announce Free
Music Deal
11/06/2003 03:52 PMNew York Times Nov 6 2003 2:43PM ET
Penn State begins free music download
service for students
Penn State begins free music download
service for students
01/18/2004 02:46 PM
On January 12, the University of Pennsylvania began
providing its on campus student body free access to Napster 2.0's subscription
music service through a campus-wide contract with Napster. The contract allows students to listen to
streaming audio or "tethered downloads" for free. (Tethered downloads
are downloaded music files that will only play as long as the user
maintains a subscription to Napster, or in this case, as long as the
student remains at Penn State.) Alternately, students can pay 99¢ a
track to burn songs to disk or transfer them to a mp3 player.
According to the
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required) other
schools are watching the experiment
closely to see if the availability of free legal music downloads will
reduce illegal file sharing on campus. As part of the contract,
Napster has provided local caching servers for about 90 percent of the
most requested songs which is expected to improve performance and
reduce network congestion. According to Penn State Live , almost
3000 students (of 17,000 eligible students) registered for the service
on the first day, streaming or downloading about 100,000 songs. No
network congestion was reported.
Penn State trustee and RIAA lawyer
denies conflict of interests
Penn State trustee and RIAA lawyer
denies conflict of interests
11/11/2003 04:27 PMHere's to you, Mr. Robinson
Computer industry to entertainment
industry: we lied (right on!)
Computer industry to entertainment
industry: we lied (right on!)
09/22/2004 02:18 AM
Cory Doctorow:
This amazing open letter to the entertainment industry, signed by the
computer industry, is a nigh-perfect expression of what constitutes a
successful approach to Internet technology. And it made me laugh my
ass off.
We lied to you. In the golden 80s and 90s we told you micropayments
and content protection would work; that you would be able to charge
minuscule amounts of money whenever someone listened to your music or
watched your movie. We told you untruths which we well knew would
never work - after all, we would've never used them ourselves.
Instead, we wrote things like Kazaa and Gnutella, and all other evil
P2P applications to get the stuff free.
We told you these things so that you would finance the things we
really wanted to build, not the things that you wanted to be built. We
knew all along that DRM schemes do not work, and we knew that whatever
we create can be broken by us. We don't care anymore, because your
money made us bigger than you.
Look at us: every year, we churn out more computer games than your
entire industry is worth. You know how we do it? We like our
customers. We don't treat them like potential criminals, and try to
make our products do less. We invent new things like online
role-playing -games, where the money does not come from duplication of
bits (which cannot be stopped, regardless of your DRM scheme) but from
providing experiences that the people want.
We saw that you were old and weak. So we took advantage of it: told
you things that you wanted to hear so we could kick you in the head in
twenty years. Some of us told you that the future is going to be
interactive - what did you do? You started to think how to make
interactive movies (CD-I, anyone?), which is not what it really means,
while we wrote games and tried to understand the new mediums, not how
to bolt it on onto old things.
We lied to you. And we apologize for that, but it was for the greater
good. So we're not the least bit sorry.
Signed: The Computer Industry
Link
(
via Blackbeltjones)
Penn State Does Deal To Provide Sort Of
Free Music Streams To Students
Penn State Does Deal To Provide Sort Of
Free Music Streams To Students
11/05/2003 09:23 PMWell, it's a step, but it's not as big a deal as some are going to
make it out to be. Over at Penn State they've been
talking
about this idea for a while, but they've now
signed a deal with Roxio's Napster 2.0 to provide
"free" music streams to students on campus. They're really hyping up
the whole free bit, but I'm quite sure the music industry is still
getting paid from someone - and that someone is Penn State. So, while
it may appear free, the price will get added into tuition or other
fees. Meanwhile, the offering is nice, but it's not real file
sharing. It's not even downloads. They just allow streaming music
for what Napster happens to have in its library. If they want more,
they're out of luck. If they want to download or burn to a CD, they
have to pay. Of course, this doesn't exactly fit with the MPAA's
educational campaign of
"if you
didn't buy it, you stole it". If anything, this sort of thing
might confuse the message. That said, I still think it's good that
there's at least some recognition for alternative business models,
even if I'm not sure this is a particularly good one.
Penn State President loves Microsoft,
Napster, the RIAA and Al Gore (true)
Penn State President loves Microsoft,
Napster, the RIAA and Al Gore (true)
12/11/2003 05:00 PMThe ultimate groupies
"End-of-semester pressure can lead to
plagiarism - Krystle Kopacz, Penn State
Collegian"
"End-of-semester pressure can lead to
plagiarism - Krystle Kopacz, Penn State
Collegian"
12/15/2003 10:29 PMSearch Engine Optimization, Inc. Opens
New Los Angeles Office to Focus on
Serving the Entertainment Industry and
Other Local Companies. Search Engine
Optimization, Inc. (SEO, Inc.) today
announced the opening of a satellite
office in Los Angeles to serve the
entertainment industry and other local
companies, large or small, seeking
heightened visibility and a high ROI on
the Internet.
Search Engine Optimization, Inc. Opens
New Los Angeles Office to Focus on
Serving the Entertainment Industry and
Other Local Companies. Search Engine
Optimization, Inc. (SEO, Inc.) today
announced the opening of a satellite
office in Los Angeles to serve the
entertainment industry and other local
companies, large or small, seeking
heightened visibility and a high ROI on
the Internet.
08/04/2004 02:36 AMSearch Engine Optimization, Inc. (SEO, Inc.) today announced the
opening of a satellite office in Los Angeles to serve the
entertainment industry and other local companies, large or small,
seeking heightened visibility and a high ROI on the Internet. [PRWEB
Aug 4, 2004]
Victoria's InLight opts to add education
to entertainment
Victoria's InLight opts to add education
to entertainment
04/04/2005 09:45 PMBusiness in Vancouver Apr 5 2005 1:59AM GMT
Jobs and the Entertainment Industry
Jobs and the Entertainment Industry
02/10/2004 02:52 AM
SFGate.com reports on Steve Jobs' unique position in between both
technology and entertainment industries.
By being both CEO of Pixar and Apple, St...
What the Entertainment Industry Really
Wants to Do to the Internet
What the Entertainment Industry Really
Wants to Do to the Internet
04/08/2005 03:24 PMCorante Apr 8 2005 7:45PM GMT
Entertainment: Industry Article |
Reuters.com
Entertainment: Industry Article |
Reuters.com
04/17/2005 07:35 PMlike this story on a phantom seal hunt .. the hunt never happened ..
we're proven
wrong
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Leader: Note to entertainment industry -
get over it
Leader: Note to entertainment industry -
get over it
12/22/2003 03:03 PMSilicon.com Dec 22 2003 12:45PM ET
Did The Entertainment Industry Plant
Evidence At ISP?
Did The Entertainment Industry Plant
Evidence At ISP?
03/22/2005 07:03 PMLast week we noted yet another case where the entertainment industry
was allowed to use its own enforcement to
raid
an ISP and cart away records, claiming that the ISP allowed
copyrighted material to be available on a server. However,
Slashdot is now claiming that the reason the entertainment
industry knew the material was there was because they put the material
their themselves. Apparently, they had an "informer" to whom they
gave the necessary servers and
content -- and had him install them at the ISP. In other words,
the industry itself put the content at the ISP in order to raid them
later -- and (they hoped) get the log files with the IP addresses of
those who downloaded from the very server they put there. While there
were already questions about whether using those log files violates
strict privacy laws in Sweden, the fact that they planted the server
makes the whole matter even more questionable. Of course, it also
makes you wonder how they can claim anyone downloading the content was
"unauthorized" downloading if they supplied it themselves to be set up
for just that purpose.
Kazaa To Sue Entertainment Industry For
Copyright Infringement
Kazaa To Sue Entertainment Industry For
Copyright Infringement
01/23/2004 02:23 PMIn a move that seems likely to backfire on them partly out of the
audacity of the move, Sharman Networks, the company behind Kazaa, can
now
sue record labels and
Hollywood studios for copyright infringement. We had briefly
mentioned this case
back in
September, but now it's been given permission to move forward.
Sharman claims that the entertainment companies violated copyright law
by using Kazaa Lite (which is not actually associated with Kazaa) to
get on the network and monitor the file trading that was occurring.
At the same time, they claim that those same companies broke the terms
of service of Kazaa by sending threatening instant messages to file
traders, warning them that they were distributing unauthorized music
files. Sharman clearly has a stronger copyright case against the
industry than the industry does against them (in that they're actually
accusing the companies of copyright violation, rather than just
"facilitating" copyright violations) - but, it still seems like a long
shot that could reflect badly on them in their other efforts.
State launches online application for
entertainment sales tax exemptions
State launches online application for
entertainment sales tax exemptions
04/11/2005 05:49 PMbizjournals.com Apr 11 2005 8:19PM GMT
Entertainment Industry And Wireless
Carriers Upset About The Inevitable
Entertainment Industry And Wireless
Carriers Upset About The Inevitable
09/16/2004 11:27 AMFor years, we've been saying that a true "Napster for mobile phones"
was on the way, but the recording industry and (most) wireless
carriers continued to put their head in the sand and think that mobile
phones were somehow different than computers. This wasn't a
particularly hard lesson to learn from just a few years ago, but both
industries have an incredibly large set of blinders that they seem to
wear. So, in the last few weeks as news spread about both
SK
Telecom and
Nokia developing file sharing apps -- neither of which uses copy
protection -- the industries were again taken by surprise. In
response to these developments, they are fighting back by...
complaining. Rather than actually dealing with the issue they're out
talking
about how such developments could be disastrous to their money making
plans and how they shouldn't be allowed to continue. In other
words, they're acting like buggy makers freaked out that someone is
building cars and saying it shouldn't be allowed. While it
was
a bit surprising that the first developments came from
large
industry players, if the entertainment industry and the carriers
somehow convince the large companies to back down on their plans, have
no fear that smaller players will fill the void. The shortsightedness
of so many companies in both industries continues to amaze.
Shocker: Entertainment Industry Worried
About File Sharing
Shocker: Entertainment Industry Worried
About File Sharing
01/04/2005 03:17 PMIn what may be the most pointless study done in quite some time, a
research firm has determined that (no! really?!?) entertainment
industry executives are
worried about "digital
piracy." The study also found that many feel it's already
impacting their bottom line. Of course, what it doesn't say is that
just because they're afraid of something, doesn't mean it's bad. This
is the same industry that was once deathly afraid of the VCR and
claimed it would completely destroy the movie industry -- when it
actually revived an industry that was in trouble. Also, just because
something impacts your bottom line, it doesn't mean it's bad. The
automobile business impacted the horse and buggy industry, but most
people realized that was a good thing in the long run. If the horse
and buggy makers had realized they were in the "transportation
business" and not the "horse and buggy business," they would have made
out better. All it means is that the companies impacted need to
learn to adjust to the changes they face in the market. So far,
however, the entertainment industry hasn't shown the ability to do
that with these latest changes. Instead of realizing what the
"entertainment industry" really means, executives think that they're
in the business of selling content on a specific medium (CDs, film
etc.) rather than realizing that what they can provide encompasses a
much broader picture, which
opens
up many new opportunities, beyond just selling individual units.
Entertainment Industry Back To Sending
Out False Takedowns
Entertainment Industry Back To Sending
Out False Takedowns
09/03/2004 07:53 PMIt's happened plenty of times before, but for some reason, no one
seems to focus on how all the examples of fake DMCA takedown notices
demonstrate just how screwed up the system is. Any copyright holder
can send a takedown notice just because they believe that someone is
offering a file that they own the copyright to... without any proof
whatsoever that the file is actually an infringing file. This
happened last year with a
Profess
or Usher, who had a file named usher.mp3 on his server -- which
had absolutely nothing to do with with the more popular Usher. The
latest news, however, has
two more
completely bogus takedown notices. One is from the MPAA claiming
some open source software code is a movie, and another from the
Entertainment Software Association claiming a 114kb video game from
1998 is actually a pirated copy of Doom 3. While everyone seems to
laugh these "little mistakes" off, it's showing that everyone accused
of unauthorized file sharing is getting accused with very little
actual proof.
Sharman vs. entertainment industry
clears legal hurdle
Sharman vs. entertainment industry
clears legal hurdle
01/26/2004 06:32 PMTechfocus Jan 26 2004 10:47PM GMT
Entertainment Industry Continues
Teaching Students One Sided Lesson
Entertainment Industry Continues
Teaching Students One Sided Lesson
04/26/2004 03:41 AMYou may remember that last fall the entertainment industry began a
project where they went into schools to teach a "lesson" on
why
file sharing was bad that included the lesson, "if you didn't pay
for it, you stole it." Of course, to hammer this lesson home, the
industry
gave away for free DVD players and trips to Hollywood
to those students who could come up with the best essays to express
why anything free must be stolen (sort out the irony for yourself).
Now the industry says they're so happy with the program that
they're gearing up
to use it next school year as well. This raises the very
important question of who the hell is letting the
industry into
the classroom to teach a very one-sided lesson? Anyway, while the
article does a good job of expressing the opinions of those who oppose
this program, ("It's rather like inviting the American insurance
industry into the classroom to tell kids about the future of health
care") the reporter clearly got confused on the specifics of the
entertainment industry's lawsuits. The article claims the MPAA and
the RIAA have been suing downloaders - which isn't true. The MPAA
hasn't filed any lawsuits specifically against people for using file
sharing. They have filed suit against someone caught digitizing and
uploading a movie though. Also, and this point is missed by any
number of articles on the topic, the RIAA isn't suing people for
downloading unauthorized tracks, but for
sharing those
tracks and offering them to others to download.
Entertainment industry tests legal bulk
download system
Entertainment industry tests legal bulk
download system
04/07/2005 10:12 AMCanadian Press via Canada.com Apr 7 2005 1:54PM GMT
Research and Markets: Investigate The
Whole Mobile Entertainment Industry In
One Informative Package Now
Research and Markets: Investigate The
Whole Mobile Entertainment Industry In
One Informative Package Now
03/14/2005 05:59 PMResearch and Markets (researchandmarkets.com/reports/c13645) has
announced the addition of Mobile Entertainment Content Series 2nd
Edition to their offering. [PRWEB Mar 10, 2005]
The Daily Oklahoman just wrote an
editorial bemoaning the expansion of
Oklahoma higher education in the state
The Daily Oklahoman just wrote an
editorial bemoaning the expansion of
Oklahoma higher education in the state
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State of the Industry: HDTV
State of the Industry: HDTV
12/24/2004 12:37 PM2004 was another action-packed year for the burgeoning HDTV business
that featured LCoS losing two champions, new DLP chips, and prices
that keep on dropping.
Whether by way of computer screens, home
entertainment centres, game consoles or
mobile phones, industry exper
Whether by way of computer screens, home
entertainment centres, game consoles or
mobile phones, industry exper
04/15/2005 09:45 AMBaku Today Apr 15 2005 1:48PM GMT
State of the U.S. Arcade Industry 2004
State of the U.S. Arcade Industry 2004
02/17/2004 01:07 PMState of the U.S. Arcade Industry for
2004
State of the U.S. Arcade Industry for
2004
02/18/2004 08:12 AMSucks
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