NMSU Housing has joined Ruckus Network, Inc., a multimedia network, to provide students with the opportunity to download free and legal music from numerous artists.

The Housing and Residential Life office trial tested the service last semester for students to enjoy free music without facing legal matters.

"Ruckus is free downloading directly to [a student's] PC," Julie Weber, director of NMSU Housing and Residential Life, said. "It is a great option for students to have."

Ruckus offers a variety of music with a library of more than three million songs and is available to all NMSU students living on or off campus; however, Ruckus works best with high speed Internet.
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Clemson University has partnered with Ruckus Network, Inc. to offer students a free and legal way of downloading unlimited music.

For those who have yet to recover from the downfall of Napster, the crackdown by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on shared music or the shock of having to pay for mp3s, Ruckus.com provides users with access to more than three million songs of all varieties.

On March 10, Ruckus Network, Inc. announced that its service would be available to the Clemson community at no cost to the University or users of the program. The multimedia network can be accessed by both undergraduate and graduate students anytime whether on or off campus.
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Music downloads are now free and legal for UK students, after UK became part of Ruckus Network Inc. earlier this month.

As of Sunday, 4,775 UK students registered and made more than 260,000 legal downloads. Student Government Director of Constituency Services Tyler Fleck said SG started working last year to bring the service to campus.
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As the Tennessee General Assembly is considering legislation requiring state colleges and universities to prevent illegal music downloading to student computers, Austin Peay State University is addressing the issue early.

APSU has contracted with Ruckus Network Inc., a Herndon, Va.-based digital media service provider that supplies free and legal downloads specifically for college students. It provides access to more than 3 million songs from the most current Billboard chart toppers to tracks from thousands of indie labels. Also, hundreds of popular movies and television shows are available for legal download through this service.
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Hot off the internet and laptops around campus come this week's top ten Ruckus downloads.

Students who used Ruckus this week were downloading Chris Brown's and The Dream's music in force. Hopefully next week, when everyone has played these songs to death, we will get some variety in the lineup. Until then here are your hits. You can look to The Bengal each week to find out what your friends who have Ruckus are listening to, that is if you aren't talking to each other for some reason.
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If there’s one thing anyone should take away from reading this article, I’d like it to be this: STOP STEALING MUSIC OFF OF THE INTERNET.

I wish that sentence could be printed in a bigger font because no matter what people hear, they just don’t listen.

The Recording Industry Association of America has been suing people consistently for years, and if you haven’t gotten caught yet, consider yourself lucky. It doesn’t matter what peer-to-peer network you use or if you use software like Peer Guardian to try to protect yourself from being caught.
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Four months, one week - that's how long I've been clean.

After seven years of abuse, quitting was easy, yet withdrawal's been anything but.

From Napster to SoulSeek, Eve 6 to Interpol, I downloaded more than 1,000 songs - all illegally, all without consequence.

But with waves of letters now arriving from the RIAA every month, I've at last kicked my habit, if only because I lack the $3,000 to $5,000 in disposable income necessary to prevent the industry bigwigs from bleeding me dry in court.
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Radiohead’s online release of its new album “In Rainbows” at whatever price you want to pay is one of many interesting new business models for artists looking for an alternative to the business model of the major labels.

Another business model is advertising supported downloads. We’ve already seen this with Ruckus, that offers free downloads to college students...
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UCLA’s Get Legal program is attempting to deter copyright infringement by using the new digital music program Ruckus to try and prevent illegal downloading on campus.

The Ruckus software, which provides free music and movies that can be legally downloaded to a computer, is being promoted on campus beginning this quarter. For an additional fee, users can transfer the music to some MP3 players or burn it to CDs.
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Facebook's new addition to its Web site is causing a buzz amongst college students nationwide. As of Sept. 20, Ruckus Network, Inc. teamed up with Facebook to give college students a new music experience.

Ruckus Network, Inc. provides entertainment geared towards college students to create a strong sense of community at schools across the nation. Ruckus is the world's only free, legal and ad-supported music downloading system geared specifically towards college students.
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