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To: Swordmaker
.... explained that students could keep their songs only until they graduated.

Do the songs then disappear, honor system, or what? That makes me suspect the biggest complaint is the system is not Mac compatible.

5 posted on 07/06/2006 10:35:23 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done, needs to be done by the government.)
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To: Mind-numbed Robot

The files from Napster and other subscription services use DRM technology to make them expire at some point.

I suppose you could extract them or change their format, but it would be a major, major pain.


6 posted on 07/06/2006 11:00:16 PM PDT by furquhart (Time for a New Crusade - Deus lo Volt!)
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To: Mind-numbed Robot
Do the songs then disappear, honor system, or what? That makes me suspect the biggest complaint is the system is not Mac compatible.

I don't know. I suspect that the systems were "subscription" services that the colleges maintained that required a current student password... once the student's password was removed from the system, the ex-student's access to the songs would no longer work.

7 posted on 07/06/2006 11:39:49 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!")
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