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Old December 15th, 2003, 12:45 AM
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Anti-virus software is a good idea if you're doing anything on the Internet anyway. If there's a possibility of data being transmitted to your computer, there's a possibility of a virus being sent.

As for music download services, one of my friends created a position for himself at the University (wrote up a job description, came to the Dean of Information Services, and he had a job), and part of his job is looking into possibly working out a deal with one of these services for the students on campus. Thus far, he has tried out MusicMatch, PressPlay, Napster (the re-incarnated pay service), and iTunes, and a few others. iTunes is the only one he really likes so far, because your music doesn't disappear if you forget to renew your subscription; once you download a song and pay for it, it's yours, period. Although I think he has issues with selection on all of the services...
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Wooow, your music dissappears if you do not renew your subscription?

Man am I ever glad I took the day off and am home alone. I would not have been on the forum today to read this and might have missed this.

I was thinking about one of these pay services when my cable ISP is back on line. (I am awaiting installation now.)

I will check out Itunes. They have a site for Windows uses now right?

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Old December 15th, 2003, 01:42 AM
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I know MusicMatch and PressPlay have the disappearing songs (and both are almost dead now anyway, AFAIK). I'm not sure of what the terms on the new Napster are, I'll ask though.

iTunes has a Windows client now for their store, although it's still pretty nifty by itself. On the University network, there are several people that share their libraires, and you can stream from them at no cost (other than bandwidth, of course). So if you really want to listen to a certain song, and don't feel like owning it, you can look through others' shared libraries, or if you want to find some new music, or etc. Only thing is you have to search through each individual library, you can't search across all of them .
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