![]() ![]() ![]() Penn has teamed up with now-legal Napster to provide students with free access to the over 600,000 songs in Napster's database. "It's a mindset that we need to work hard to overcome, that it's stealing and that it's wrong," Kendig said. ![]() He said the biggest problem with copyright music is that students think free music is their birthright. Kendig said the program, in addition to providing students with the music they want, also educates them in copyright law and ethics. "Students have told us that music is an important part of their lives, and Penn State is really making a push to become a more student-centered university," he said. This year it is open to all of Penn's 83,000 students, he said. The pilot program was offered to 17,000 students in residence halls, and about 85 percent of them used the program, according to Tysen Kendig, manager of the news bureau at Penn State. Pennsylvania State University was the first university to offer a legal music service to students last year. More colleges are offering legal alternatives to combat music piracy on campus. ![]()
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