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November 13, 2003


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Napster to provide free music for Penn State

In an attempt to give students a legal way to download music from the Internet, Penn State University signed a deal Nov. 6 with Napster that will provide the university’s on-campus students with free access to the online music service.

Napster, once the leader in peer-to-peer MP3 trading, has been shut down since July 11, 2001. Its owners, Roxio Inc., launched Napster 2.0 on Oct. 29. The new service is modeled after Apple’s successful iTunes Music Store, where users pay 99 cents to download on…

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