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Undergraduates
\n with time on their hands are the Mother’s of Invention, as the history
\n of Napster clearly shows. Now a pair of 20ish MIT students have come
\n up with a workaround for the RIAA’s labyrintian limitations on digital
\n music distribution by – is nothing Holy – going Analog.<\/p>\n
The dream – free music on demand anywhere on campus at anytime. The
\n reality – well, there are still a few drawbacks to this MIT hack, which
\n is called the Library Access to Music Program, or LAMP.<\/p>\n
”We assumed that the technical part of doing this would be the hard
\n part,” said Winstein. ”We were totally wrong.”<\/p>\n
Among the drawbacks: to avoid digital liscencing fees, the music is
\n distributed in analog form, over the campus fiber-optic network. The
\n conversion results in some sound degradation. Students
\n need to listen to the tunes on their television sets, or on PCs with
\n TV cards. And a maximum of 16 users at a time (out of an on-campus
\n population of more than 6,000) can request tunes from the server.<\/p>\n
from the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Undergraduates with time on their hands are the Mother’s of Invention, as the history of Napster clearly shows. Now a pair of 20ish MIT students have come up with a workaround for the RIAA’s labyrintian limitations on digital music distribution … Continue reading