Bringing a legal music-downloading service to campus is fairly easy, but getting students to use that service can be a tough sell. So say administrators at Tufts University, which started offering student subscriptions to Cdigix, a provider of digital music and movies, in November. Since Cdigix made its campus debut, only 1,000 of over 6,000 eligible students have registered to use the program.
The cool reception at Tufts adds to a mixed bag of results for legal file-swapping services like Cdigix, Napster, and Ruckus. Cdigix has boasted of impressive student participation at several institutions, like Goucher College and Purdue University at West Lafayette. But officials at some other colleges with Cdigix subscriptions—like Yale University and the Rochester Institute of Technology—say that students have been slow to warm to legal downloading.
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