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Penn State University, Napster Team Up to Deliver Digital Music to Students.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2003

By Chris Gaither, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 7--Napster once haunted university officials. Now it's one school's best hope for curbing illegal music sharing on campus Internet networks.

In the first deal between a university and a major Internet music service, Pennsylvania State University yesterday said it would soon begin delivering digital music to thousands of its students through a deal with Roxio Inc., which acquired the name of the shuttered file-trading program and relaunched it last month as a legitimate business.

Penn State and music industry officials said the service will be the first of its kind on college campuses and provide a model for other universities struggling to prevent their...

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