MIT Students Develop Online Music Sharing System

NPR | By Chris Arnold

Published October 27, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

Two students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) develop an online music sharing system that allows people to listen to music, but not download or distribute it. Keith Winstein and Josh Mandel say the system is legal. NPR's Chris Arnold reports.

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