Penn State to Offer Premium Napster Service Free to All Students

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 6, 2003 - 8:12am.

Anaheim, Calif. -- The new Napster service has reached a deal with Penn State University to offer students access to Napster for free, charging students only when they choose to make permanent downloads or burn songs onto CD. Penn State president Graham B. Spanier announced the deal on Thursday at an educational conference in Anaheim, Calif. "This will be the first step in a new, legal approach designed to meet student interest in getting extensive digital access to music," said Spanier. The cost for the Napster Premium Service will come out of the information technology fee included in the tuition paid by the school's 83,000 students, although exact figures were not given. An initial roll-out in January for Penn State's 18,000 on campus residents will be followed by a full launch in the fall of 2004 for all students and faculty. The school also intends to explore offering the service to its 150,000 dues-paying alumni. University president Spanier also serves as co-chair of the Committee on Higher Education and the Entertainment Industry, along with Recording Industry Association of America president Cary Sherman.
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