techcrunch.com - 2/7/2009
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techcrunch.com —
Ruckus, an online music service geared towards universities
that allows students to stream an unlimited amount of...
music, has apparently just closed its doors. The service was designed to appeal to college students, offering a legal alternative ...
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College Music Service Ruckus Shuts Down
engadget.com - 2/7/2009
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engadget.com —
While there's clearly demand for downloadable music, there's
clearly not enough of it being funneled to Ruckus...
Network. The oft forgotten music service -- which somehow reckoned it could take on the likes of Rhapsody, Apple, Microsoft and countless others in the saturated digital download ...
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Ruckus music service calls it quits
arstechnica.com - 2/11/2009
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arstechnica.com —
The music industry, struggling to find workable business
models for the digital age, apparently can't even give...
its product away. Ad-supported services like SpiralFrog have generated what can only be charitably called a "lack of ...
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Ruckus: when "free music" can't compete with free music
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Ruckus music service calls it quits
Engadget —
... While there's clearly demand for downloadable music, there's clearly not enough of it being funneled to Ruckus Network. The oft forgotten music service -- which somehow reckoned it could take on the likes of Rhapsody, Apple, Microsoft and countless ...
College Online Music Service Ruckus Closes Down
paidContent —
... Ruckus Networks, the Herndon, VA-based college music and digital media service, has closed down, according to a notice on its site, picked up ...
Ruckus: when "free music" can't compete with free music
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... in an attempt to attract more users. That apparently didn't happen, and it didn't help that the advertising market has been collapsing. So Ruckus pulled the plug on Friday, replacing its Web site with a graphic that said only, "Unfortunately the Ruckus service will no longer be provided. Thanks." School-sponsored music is dead? The demise of Ruckus will probably put an end to schools' experimentation with offering legal music services to their students, at least in the short term. On the one hand, remaining subscription services still require fees and come with too many ...
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