Leave it to resident whiz-kids at MIT, Winstein and Mandel, to use their brains for a solution to how to access the music in the school library after hours. As the article states, this wasn’t created to replace music filesharing operations, but to allow students to become radio operators from music in a central location on the campus. n 2001, Winstein and Mandel received a grant from iCampus, a Microsoft-backed alliance with MIT that provides $52 million to research better teaching tools through technology. MIT allocates about $300,000 a year for such student projects.

Update 11/3/03: NY Times reports that this has been “temporarily shut down”, pending legal issues.

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