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Harvard, like many universities, has been under pressure from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to crack down on students who use their network connection to download music. Last April, then-Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 announced that the College would unplug the connection of any users caught sharing copyrighted songs...
...course lots and lots of people download music when it’s free. At the price of 0, demand is really huge. But if people have to pay $18, then they won’t demand as much,” Oberholzer-Gee said. “So thinking that every download that takes place is a lost sale is a very implausible worst-case scenario...
...payments from shopkeepers, which are calculated with impressive precision. A shopkeeper squatting on the pavement has his shop space divided into plots of 3 ft. by 3 ft., and is levied $3.50 daily for each plot. Those whose shops are beside the road, and closer to the trucks that download and pick up wholesale produce, have to pay two-and-a-half times more...
...Francisco, London and Benares, India. "We focus on the stories behind the walls," says Michel Sitruk, head of business development for Soundwalk. "We want to give a sense of the pulse of a neighborhood." Besides selling its CDs through book retailers, the company has made a deal with download site Audible.com the spoken-word audio content provider for iTunes. Now you can immerse yourself in the sounds of Chinatown without leaving Kansas...
Davis said that students should download attachments with caution, even when they appear to be from a safe source like FAS Computer Services...