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July 06, 2005, 08:32 AM ET
Dell, Napster Combine Forces to Sell Music Sharing
Buy a server, get built-in song downloading. Those are the terms of a new deal offered to colleges by Dell, the PC manufacturer, and Napster, the legal music-sharing service. The companies announced the offer this morning.
This fall, when Dell sells servers to colleges looking to bolster their networks, the company will also sell subscriptions to Napster, arguing that the service helps colleges reduce piracy and cut down on Internet traffic. The servers will come with software, designed by Napster programmers, that locally caches tunes so students will be able to download them without clogging campus Internet connections.
The University of Washington at Seattle will be the first institution to try the service: This fall Dell will install 10 servers, each outfitted with Napster’s caching software, to help the university manage its first experiment with a legal downloading service.
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