Sweet...free legal music downloads from my school and Ruckus

[michaels]

Everyone loves free music, but don?t let piracy ruin your life! Arkansas State University has joined forces with the RUCKUS online music service to provide students with 100% FREE AND LEGAL downloads of over a million of your favorite songs. New stuff is added weekly, and albums download in under a minute. To get access, visit RUCKUS, and register your SMAIL account. No credit cards, no personal info, no hassle. Just free music and a clear conscience, courtesy of your friends at ASU and Ruckus.
Sign up today at RUCKUS.COM!

Just got this in an email.

 

[jlee]

That's pretty cool.

Tuition go up lately?

 

[pray4mojo]

yea well i get autodesk apps for free.

 

[michaels]

I'm using Autocad 07 right now actually.

 

[Syringer]

I just signed up for this! Anyone else using it? It's free to use for anyone with a .edu address.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Subscription-based WMAs :roll:

However, if there's another break in WMDRM, I can see this getting really popular.

- M4H

 

[Syringer]

Because faculty members and many alumni also use an .edu e-mail address, Mr. Bebel said that the service would ask users if they were students, staff members or alumni. Those who are not students will be asked to pay $8.95 a month for the service.

:laugh: it's based on the honor system

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Syringer

Because faculty members and many alumni also use an .edu e-mail address, Mr. Bebel said that the service would ask users if they were students, staff members or alumni. Those who are not students will be asked to pay $8.95 a month for the service.

:laugh: it's based on the honor system

Anyone want to loan me a .edu addy?

- M4H

 

[amdskip]

Mine won't work, has to be signed up for it.

 

[desteffy]

I signed up for this from my school. Its annoying because most of the songs you actually want ARENT free, only some of the songs are actually free.

 

[MisterJackson]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: Syringer

Because faculty members and many alumni also use an .edu e-mail address, Mr. Bebel said that the service would ask users if they were students, staff members or alumni. Those who are not students will be asked to pay $8.95 a month for the service.

:laugh: it's based on the honor system

Anyone want to loan me a .edu addy?

- M4H

You can enroll at MisterJackson Tech and recieve one. Only a down payment of $10,000 is required. The classes are actually free, the money is a "refundable deposit" I hold in a off shoer....er....trust account until you complete my courses.

 

[Juno]

is ruckus legit?

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Subscription-based WMAs :roll:

However, if there's another break in WMDRM, I can see this getting really popular.

- M4H

DRM'ed crap? bleh... I'll stick with allofmp3, thanks...

 

[daniel1113]

Sigh... why is a school paying for its students to download music? How is that part of the education process? I'd be pissed if my school did this, because I am paying for an education, not music.

 

[MisterJackson]

Originally posted by: daniel1113
Sigh... why is a school paying for its students to download music? How is that part of the education process? I'd be pissed if my school did this, because I am paying for an education, not music.

I'm sure it's a purely financial decision where the school gets a nice kickback. As a parent, if my kid were at this school it would bother me a bit. Granted most kids are d/l'ing music anyway, but this is saying "Here, don't tie up your bandwidth studying on line when you can tie it up getting the newest album from......"

 

[goatjc]

Originally posted by: MisterJackson

Originally posted by: daniel1113
Sigh... why is a school paying for its students to download music? How is that part of the education process? I'd be pissed if my school did this, because I am paying for an education, not music.

I'm sure it's a purely financial decision where the school gets a nice kickback. As a parent, if my kid were at this school it would bother me a bit. Granted most kids are d/l'ing music anyway, but this is saying "Here, don't tie up your bandwidth studying on line when you can tie it up getting the newest album from......"

At least where I used to work, we thought about bringing this on board. It would be an extra semesterly fee from our department if you wanted to sign up for it. It's all DRM'd music & movies. Theory behind it was it would make the university more money and it wouldnt tie up our outgoing bandwidth as much. Hence, these places that have ruckus, have a file server on campus for all the content that is updated maybe once a week.

 

[Syringer]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Subscription-based WMAs :roll:

However, if there's another break in WMDRM, I can see this getting really popular.

- M4H

DRM'ed crap? bleh... I'll stick with allofmp3, thanks...

 

[Toastedlightly]

I used it, but had problems w/ the DRM on ~50% of songs. They would always fail to update and I'd be stuck w/ lost HD space.

 

[thehstrybean]

Originally posted by: goatjc

Originally posted by: MisterJackson

Originally posted by: daniel1113
Sigh... why is a school paying for its students to download music? How is that part of the education process? I'd be pissed if my school did this, because I am paying for an education, not music.

I'm sure it's a purely financial decision where the school gets a nice kickback. As a parent, if my kid were at this school it would bother me a bit. Granted most kids are d/l'ing music anyway, but this is saying "Here, don't tie up your bandwidth studying on line when you can tie it up getting the newest album from......"

At least where I used to work, we thought about bringing this on board. It would be an extra semesterly fee from our department if you wanted to sign up for it. It's all DRM'd music & movies. Theory behind it was it would make the university more money and it wouldnt tie up our outgoing bandwidth as much. Hence, these places that have ruckus, have a file server on campus for all the content that is updated maybe once a week.

Cool idea in theory...wonder if my school has it...of course, I'm off-campus living at home, so what's it matter?

Nice...got it goin...pretty sweet idea...just remembered, my school blocks all the P2P ports and gives you a little vacation if you're found with them...ugh...

 

[CPA]

I like one of the benefits of Ruckus:

Internet Street Cred.

 

[Oil]

Well you could burn the WMAs to a CD then rip them to a non DRM format.

The quality of the songs would degrade though

 

[slpaulson]

Originally posted by: michaels

Everyone loves free music, but don?t let piracy ruin your life! Arkansas State University has joined forces with the RUCKUS online music service to provide students with 100% FREE AND LEGAL downloads of over a million of your favorite songs. New stuff is added weekly, and albums download in under a minute. To get access, visit RUCKUS, and register your SMAIL account. No credit cards, no personal info, no hassle. Just free music and a clear conscience, courtesy of your friends at ASU and Ruckus.
Sign up today at RUCKUS.COM!

Just got this in an email.

Assuming this is the same as what happened at Wisconsin, Ruckus was making the whole partnership with your school thing up. We got an email from our IT department the next day that said there was no such partnership, and that Ruckus was making that up.

 

[totalcommand]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Subscription-based WMAs :roll:

However, if there's another break in WMDRM, I can see this getting really popular.

- M4H

WMDRM is broken...if you don't upgrade your WMP.

 

[BHeemsoth]

Ruckus sucks, my school beta tested it for a while. Now, each student gets a subscription to Napster - much larger Artist base.

Napster + TuneBite = sex.

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: OSx86
Well you could burn the WMAs to a CD then rip them to a non DRM format.

The quality of the songs would degrade though

DRM = can't burn to CD.
DRM = can't transfer to a WMA compliant mp3 player

Ever since WMP11 came out, it's become difficult to get around the DRM.