Today Ruckus, the legal music downloading service announced Free Music for All College Students in the US. This offer had previously been offered only to schools under contract with them, however, this offer is opened to any student with an .edu email address.

The virus free music downloading service sports music from all genres and virtually every major record label has restricted some with .edu emails from downloading music, do to the fact that many Alumni and staff choose to use their .edu email addresses as well.

This all comes in an effort to decrease the downloading of illegal copyrighted music from file sharing networks such as Kazaa, bit torrent sites and other P2P networks. Disapointed by all this are Apple users who will not be able to use the songs downloaded nor will iPod users. But Apple is not the only bigwig being left behind as Microsoft’s portable Zune media player will also not be able to play the music. You can read their press release here: http://www.ruckusnetwork.com/pressrelease.php?id=62

It’s a rarity that I pay too much attention to reviews, I’m always a little suspicious of them online; mostly do to affiliate marketing. Many website owners have the intention of creating great reviews for their affiliates that pay them the highest commission; it’s atypical for a review to post better reviews for any product or service that pays them less to advertise it.

And, that’s simply the truth, however, there are rare exceptions but those are few and far between. So, when do I take reviews seriously? When the reviewer is respected or has nothing to gain from their critique; hence the reason I found this information so interesting. What information you ask? eBay members reviews of Microsoft’s Zune .

Out of 18 reviews we have an average of 4/5 stars, not too bad. However, if we look at the more active reviewers (those who are listed as the top 10,000 reviewers), we see that they too liked it and had some very promising things to say. This comment is from: peanuts154