Over 180,000
students in Tennessee can rest easy knowing they will not be slapped with an RIAA music tax thanks to the Tennessee Board of Regents. The group rejected the idea of slapping students with a mandatory fee for the Napster music download service. The fee would have kept the RIAA away from 45 schools represented by the board but added to costs of university fees. The board decided that 99c per student a month was not reasonable and not worth it to solve a very insignificant problem of illegally downloaded music. Without this deal schools who sign up in Tennessee will not get as good a deal as the University of Rochester which is subsidised by RIAA but the Tennessee board don't really care as the money they saved can go to better education and other more important problems. As pointed out by The Register students want better education not where Britney spears next vacation will be.
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Despite bullying by the RIAA, Tennessee has decided that a $ 9.99 per student/per month fee is too high a price to pay to solve a not terribly important problem."The mandatory |
You can get the full story over at The Register. As usual the RIAA tries to bully schools into signing up for services that they don't really require. Schools want to spend money on extra educational facilities and books and as pointed out IT costs will go up if students are made to sign up to these services. Of course wasting money on music downloading services is not going to get the student the best education is it?
Source: The Register
