| Buying a legit service doesn't work. Look at purdue. They offered Rukus for free to all freshman for a few years and no one used it. The fact that most people have ipods automatically means if your free service isn't itunes, it absolutely has no chance. And due to no one using it, they cancelled the service. Most likely because it was probably ridiculously expensive and in the end the students owned nothing because it was a subscription service. Of course upon cancelling the service the RIAA decided to make an example out of them and bombard them with complaints. Even though students were not downloading illegal files any less while having the free service, the complaint count went from 40 a year to over a 1000 a year. This is why no school should ever attempt to offer a free service, because when you find out it's worthless and cancel it, the RIAA will attack. |
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| said by insomniac84:The fact that most people have ipods automatically means if your free service isn't itunes, it absolutely has no chance. Well then the spoiled rich brats will just have to use another player. Oh, woe is them. Free music or keep their iPod and be thieves.
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| Who is going to buy a new mp3 player to gain access to a free subscription service for a year? People aren't made of money and a lot of people like their ipods. So offering a service that doesn't work with the ipod makes the service unusable by most students.
Also, fyi, downloading music isn't theft it's copyright infringement. No one is a thief.
Basically any service that uses drm is pointless unless every mp3 player can support it. Since such drm doesn't exist, these subscription services are pointless and a waste of money. |
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 mrchrisOut and aroundPremium
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North Babylon, NY | Let's not forget the lack of variety when they think most students like the popular crap, wrong. |
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Same thing happened here at Michigan Tech. Ruckus was offered free to all on campus students first, then to all students, and it was a nice luxury for a few months, till the licenses stopped renewing, and the selection of music ran dry.
Now its practically dead.
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said by fAcEtIOUs:said by insomniac84:The fact that most people have ipods automatically means if your free service isn't itunes, it absolutely has no chance. Well then the spoiled rich brats will just have to use another player. Oh, woe is them. Free music or keep their iPod and be thieves. Why in God's name would I have to stop using the device I presently use and buy a new one with the same capabilities just to satisfy someone else's requirement for copy protection?
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said by fAcEtIOUs:said by insomniac84:The fact that most people have ipods automatically means if your free service isn't itunes, it absolutely has no chance. Well then the spoiled rich brats will just have to use another player. Oh, woe is them. Free music or keep their iPod and be thieves. Wow the ignorance in that comment is astounding. Hey maybe you should think your comments through instead of just saying them.
What mp3 player is currently the most popular? Ipod....
If the files from Rukus didn't work on Windows would you say "Spoil rich kids need to use linux! Woe is them."
You know not everyone is spoiled, rich, and goes to college. |
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Gurnee, IL
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said by fAcEtIOUs:said by insomniac84:The fact that most people have ipods automatically means if your free service isn't itunes, it absolutely has no chance. Well then the spoiled rich brats will just have to use another player. Oh, woe is them. Free music or keep their iPod and be thieves. Not every college student has mommy and daddy paying for their education. |
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