Napster & Dell pair offerings to Univeristies

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According to this Ars.Technica article, Napster and Dell are encouraging Univeristies to adopt Napster as the exclusive online music store by offering discounts on Dell servers for the school (to cache popular Napster tracks, reducing bandwidth costs) and Dell MP3 players for the kiddies. Which will be handy since Napster won't work with their iPods. Here is another article about some of the shady measures Napster is taking to coerce kids into using their service at college.

Posted by Mark Allen on Wednesday, July 6, 2005 Comments (0)