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Ruckus Network, Inc. has announced that through a partnership with Merit Network, Inc. it recently began providing a multimedia network that supplies free music downloads specifically for college students to Michigan colleges and universities. Merit Network, Inc. provides high speed Internet access to Michigans schools, libraries and higher education institutions. Throughout the year, undergraduate and graduate students will be able to access the Ruckus service anytime  on or off campus  to receive the free, unlimited and full-featured music service.

Members of the growing Ruckus community will receive access to the first college-only service that blends social networking features with a massive and continuously expanding library that is free, legal and safe. Ruckus has already proven successful at more than 100 colleges and universities across the country, including Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, Indiana University, Brown University, University of California-Berkeley, the University of Denver and Georgia Tech.

Through the Ruckus service, students can legally download and share music, create playlists, send personal media recommendations to friends and neighbors, browse classmates profiles and media libraries and meet new friends. Students can build their personal music libraries from Ruckus collection of more than 2.1 million high-fidelity, virus-free songs. Ruckus eliminates copyright infringement through its licensing agreements with all of the major international record labels, as well as thousands of independent labels and artists.

Merit Network selected Ruckus free on-campus music service offering based on student demand for the Ruckus service, the networks robust networking infrastructure, and commitment to supporting legal, digital media services through on-campus marketing. Students at these schools will experience very fast downloads, improved network bandwidth, lower campus network infrastructure costs and access to additional video content.

We are very excited to make our music service available to students in Michigan along with hundreds of schools across the country, said Mairin Brzica, Director of Campus Relations at Ruckus. Students at these schools have been emailing us for months requesting subscriptions, and we are happy to now provide a digital entertainment network and a safe and legal solution to file-sharing at no cost to students or to the school. 

In partnering with Ruckus, we are offering students another way to connect with their campus communities, as well as a safe, legal and free way for them to obtain and share digital media, said Don Welch, President and CEO of Merit. It is a partnership we are very excited about, and we think our higher education community and their students will be as well.

Students can begin using the service immediately by simply visiting www.Ruckus.com and signing up with their lssu email address. 
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