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...recent weeks, iTunes use has exploded on the Harvard campus, with e-mails going out on house lists imploring studentsto download the program in order to create a wider network of shared music. Sadly, after this initial rush, many have remarked that, for the most part, their shared folder still extends only as far as the walls of their House or dorm...
...point: This Disney fanatic has created a series of problem sets centered around Disney movies. The first assignment was about The Jungle Book, and Sala-I-Martin has since moved on to The Little Mermaid and The Lion King. When students go to the Economics 1391 website to download the problem sets, not only do Mowgli, Ariel and Simba pop up on the screen, but the respective theme songs play in the background. “Problem sets need not be boring and dry,” Sala-I-Martin explains. His students agree. “The problem sets...
Palfrey said he hopes to institute an “artistic co-op” where subscribers could pay monthly fees in order to download songs from an online music library, without mediation from record labels...
...give Packer students a new set of rules to break. The school's entire culture has changed. The place feels different, and not everybody is comfortable with that. Everybody you meet at Packer is carrying a laptop. Kids in the hall wave wireless cards and argue about where to download drivers. When teachers talk, there's a low, collective clicking sound in the background--the sound of hundreds of fingers taking notes via keyboard. "It was painful for me," admits Elissa Krebs, who heads the English Department at Packer. "Inevitably you would just have lines of seventh- and eighth-graders...
...cable television network for free. But by the end of the week, the idea had been withdrawn; apparently, it would have illegal for MIT to broadcast the files—3,500 CDs worth of music—that had been purchased for this purpose. As file-sharing download systems continue to flourish on the web, however, it is clear that the music industry needs to abandon the methods it has used in the past—regulation and litigation—and develop new ways to generate revenue in a world of high-speed Internet connections. The plan developed...