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MIT Students Develop Online Music Sharing System

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.

Chris Arnold

NPR correspondent Chris Arnold is based in Boston. His reports are heard regularly on NPR's award-winning newsmagazines Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. He joined NPR in 1996 and was based in San Francisco before moving to Boston in 2001.

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