Linux-powered device brings legal music sharing to MIT
Oct 25, 2004 — by Henry Kingman — from the LinuxDevices Archive — viewsTwo MIT students relaunched MIT's believed-legal music sharing network today, using a Linux-based consumer audio device that also launches today as a commercial product. The “Library Access to Music Project” (LAMP) system was first launched a year ago, but shut down after its content supplier encountered legal hurdles. The reincarnated LAMP is based on StreetFire Sound's RBX1600, which network-enables multiple inexpensive consumer audio jukeboxes.
Read all about the MIT students' music sharing network — and about the StreetFire Sound Labs RBX1600 consumer audio device — in our complete Device Profile.
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