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Written by Kostas Tzounopoulos
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Monday, 22 January 2007 |
 If you are a college student in US you can use your .edu e-mail address to sign-up in Ruckus for unlimited free music! It has more than 2 million tracks available. Unfortunately the DRM it uses (PFS) is not supported by Zune or iPod but tracks can be played on Media Player and PFS compatible devices...
For an extra $15 a semester, students can also access 4,000 movies and TV shows. University faculty and alumni can also use the network, but filters will recognize them as non-students, and they will have to pay a monthly fee. [via PaidContent.org ] 
The service, from Ruckus Network, will be supported by advertising on its Web site and on the software used to download and play songs. The four major record labels and several independent labels have agreed to license their music to Ruckus at lower rates than they charge other mass market music services on the theory that college students would rather steal songs than pay the $10 to $15 a month that such services normally charge.
Phil Leigh, president of Inside Digital Media, a research firm, said that the move also represented a way for labels to experiment with advertising-supported music, a model that he said might be better for the labels than radio, because they could share in the advertising revenue. Music publishers, which represent the composers, are paid by radio stations, but the labels, which represent performing artists, are not. [via NYtimes] Visit Ruckus.com
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Last Updated ( Monday, 22 January 2007 )
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