-- Online music retailer MusicRebellion.com announced today that the company will offer all 2,300 DePauw University students legal music through the company's Web-based platform starting August 24th. This is the first signed university affiliate agreement for MusicRebellion, a division of Digonex Technologies Inc.
MusicRebellion will offer DePauw students music on a pay-per-download basis without charging any added fees to the university or the students, like those imposed by other music providers. The songs will be priced using the Digonex demand driven pricing system and will be automatically updated on the website according to student demand.
"We are very excited that DePauw University, a great educational institution, is making our music system available to its students," said Jan Eglen, Ph.D., CEO of Digonex Technologies. "What we're announcing today amounts to a landmark agreement between vendor and college that offers the fairest pricing system in a legal market, most complete educational program for universities, and a return of a portion of each sale as a contribution towards scholarships."
Students at DePauw will have the option to complete an education module, created by MusicRebellion, which gives an overview of music and the ramifications for pirating media. In return for a completed education module, each student will receive a $3 credit in their online account.
DePauw students will be able to submit their own original music to be placed alongside major label content on the MusicRebellion website. In addition, Mike Wanchic, producer and leader of the John Mellencamp Band, will offer a master class for students.
"As a DePauw alumnus and a performing artist, I am pleased to be able to offer my alma mater the most complete educational program of any digital music university distribution system," said Wanchic.? "I have chosen to associate with MusicRebellion in the highly competitive music industry download business in an admittedly difficult economic environment because this system is the fairest to consumers, artists, and stakes holders, and MusicRebellion has a deep and proven commitment to helping educate students in an ethically constructive manner."
"Our partnership with MusicRebellion will serve as a national model for how colleges and universities can address the problem of illegal downloading of music without restricting student choice," says Dennis Trinkle, Ph.D., Chief Information Officer at DePauw. "What this partnership creates is a way for DePauw to provide a venue for students to access the music they want: legally and conveniently. And, since MusicRebellion will be donating 1% of all sales back to DePauw for student scholarships, every time students buy music, they are helping themselves."
Dr. Trinkle says DePauw has been stressing "healthy computing" to its students: examining such things as managing information overload, ergonomics, and the ethical implications of technology. "This agreement will effectively promote the practices we preach about," he says.
Founded in 1837, DePauw University is ranked in the top tier of America's liberal arts colleges by U.S. News & World Report. A faculty of 222 full-time professors creates a student/faculty ratio of 10 to 1 and a rigorous academic environment that encourages participation, expression and individual attention to students' needs. DePauw is 8th among the nation's liberal arts colleges as an undergraduate source of business leaders, 11th among all colleges and universities as a source of Fortune 500 CEOs, and 16th among the nation's undergraduate colleges as a baccalaureate source for Ph.D. degrees in all fields.
MusicRebellion is an online media retailer that offers approximately 400,000 songs from both independent and major label artists. The music offered is available on a pay-per-download model with over 99% being burnable and transportable.
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