Ruckus Is Free For All Students!

" Ruckus, the legal music downloading service, is now free for all college students nationwide. Every student on America’s college and university campuses now has free and legal access to the world’s first, advertising supported college-only, music download service, Ruckus, from Ruckus Network, Inc. The Ruckus service, previously available only at schools with contractual agreements with Ruckus, can now be accessed by any student with a valid .edu email account. With today’s announcement, Ruckus users everywhere now have easy and immediate access to the recently expanded library of more than 2.1 million high fidelity, virus-free music tracks from every major label, as well as an impressive and expansive list of independent labels. Ruckus eliminates copyright infringement through its licensing agreements with all of the major international record labels, as well as thousands of independent labels and artists."

I think that this is a great idea to allow students on college campuses to download music free off the internet. They would do it anyway illegally and I think that it’s great that Ruckus partnered up with colleges to make this possible for students. Even if you don’t go to a school that has a contractual agreement with Ruckus, you are still able to download songs with a valid .edu email address. This is especially good because we attend a college that not many people have heard about, and doesn’t have a huge population. If Ruckus only allowed students that go to schools with contractual agreements with ruckus, we wouldn’t be able to use it.This new policy is not only good for us students, but also, it gives new artists a chance to be heard, and become known across college campuses throughout the US, because of their recently expanded library of independent labels.

Jessica Kaplan
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