Dell has agreed to include Napster’s digital music service into servers marketed to university systems in an effort to bring legitimate music services to campuses, long considered a hotbed of digital piracy.
The University of Washington was named as the first school to adopt the integrated system. Dell will install 10 servers that feature Napster’s SuperPeer cache application, allowing students at the Seattle campus to access music and other Napster content stored on the caching server.
Beginning this fall, Dell account executives will begin selling Napster subscriptions at a discounted academic rate to other colleges and universities adopting the integrated server system. It also will sell Dell digital music devices, such as the Dell DJ MP3 player.
