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Post-Napster, Free Music-and Legal

September 15, 2006 RSS Feed Print
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University of Florida students can now access over 1.6 million songs online--at no cost, and no legal risk, the Alligator reports. The service, provided by the Ruckus Network, is part of a pilot program that seeks to do what seems impossible: appease both students' appetites and copyright law. Just one (deal-breaking?) caveat: the free songs cannot be transferred to an iPod.

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