Campus or Subscription Music Services

In this hour-long podcast, we present a session from the EDUCAUSE 2007 Policy Conference entitled, "Digital Entertainment on Campus: Old Lawsuits and New Business Models". This session consists of a panel discussion as well as Q&A from attendess. The panel includes:

Michael J. Bebel, CEO, Ruckus Network

Jeffrey Bronikowski, Senior Vice President, Business Development, Global Digital Initiatives Division, Universal Music Group

Larry Jacobson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Cdigix

Session moderator: Susan Butler, Senior Correspondent, Billboard Magazine

This is the podcast of the second general session of EDUCAUSE's 2006 Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference. This session was recorded on Wednesday, January 11, 2006. The session featured panelists Amy Ginther, Samuel K. Haldeman and Susan Foster and was moderated by Mark A. Luker. Below is a brief synopsis.

"Panelists bring their considerable experience in higher education and the entertainment industry to a discussion of the ins and outs of digital entertainment on campus. Topics will include illegal file sharing, legal online services, laws and policies, technology and business models, as well as education and ethics."

etree.org is a music trading site which specialises in making available live recordings ('bootlegs') from trading friendly musicians. Originally a relatively exclusive club, the advent of bittorrent has the music much more accessible to the non-fanatic. Bands such as The Grateful Dead are of course mainstays, but there are also many current bands such as Black Crowes and Phish.

With about a dozen new listings every day, there is lots of music to listen to, even if the breadth of the collection may leave something to be desired.

College bookstores and campus music services might want to tune into this. The article below, which appears to be archived now, notes that Watersones is considering an MP3 vending kiosk to sell audio books. Knowing that more people, perhaps students in particular, are carrying MP3 players than CD players, this would seem to make a lot of sense. I'm sure the DRM folks (both hackers and backers) are licking there chops tho'

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=614031

Who knows, one of these days, perhaps a wayward podcast or two will find its way in there too.