Penn State Napster 2.0 Trial1 Penn State/Napster 2.0 Trial Russ Vaught

Penn State Napster 2.0 Trial2 Project Description Contract signed November 5, 2003 –Centrally funded for students First phase started Spring Semester –Residence Halls only Summer Sessions –All students attending Summer Session Second phase started Fall Semester –All students at all locations –Faculty and staff for a fee

Penn State Napster 2.0 Trial3 Security Strong Policy on Computer and Network Security –Deals directly with copyright infringement –Now bans servers in residence halls Installed firewalls on 94 residence hall networks Practice –Have always suspended network access upon infringement notice or substantiated awareness –Recidivists receive deferred suspension in most cases

Penn State Napster 2.0 Trial4 Student Use Spring Semester –85% of students with that supported Napster signed up –Between 80,000 and 100,000 tracks per day Fall Semester –12,103 of a potential 72,000+ students have signed up already

Penn State Napster 2.0 Trial5 Survey Conducted a survey towards the end of the semester –Residence Hall students only –Received a little over 500 responses Will repeat survey during Fall Semester

Penn State Napster 2.0 Trial6 Frequency of Use

Penn State Napster 2.0 Trial7 Feature Preference

Penn State Napster 2.0 Trial8 Finding Preferred Content

Penn State Napster 2.0 Trial9 Napster Helped Decrease File Sharing

Penn State Napster 2.0 Trial10 Conclusions from Survey Most students who have the service use it frequently Finding desired content determines whether students use Napster or another service Essentially all students view price for purchased tracks as too expensive –Probably need to lower price –Students need better education on true cost of music

Penn State Napster 2.0 Trial11 Plans Interest in technical alternatives for Mac and LINUX users Instruction –Two Music Courses this fall –Napster in Labs Streaming client only

Penn State Napster 2.0 Trial12 Observations Most students who have service value it –Considerable interest by students at other institutions Complaint focus –Valued and new tracks not available –Macs not supported Piracy may have decreased –Content is king

Penn State Napster 2.0 Trial13 Schools with Napster Penn State Rochester USC U of Miami Cornell George Washington Wright State Middlebury Vanderbilt