Legal Downloads at UC Berkeley

Our Goal

In an effort to provide legal downloading alternatives for students, UC Berkeley has negotiated favorable deals with two music services: iTunes and Ruckus. Each service has unique features and offers more than one million songs and helps support the university.

iTunes

Support UC Berkeley Students by purchasing downloads from the itunes.berkeley.edu website. A 5% commission on all qualifying revenue will go towards the Berkeley Incentive Awards Program.

Details:

$0.99 per downloaded song
Select song downloads donate 5% commission to UC Berkeley's Incentive Awards Program
Create playlists
Requires the iTunes client
Requires an active iTunes account
Syncs with iPods
Works on both Macs and PCs

Ruckus

UC Berkeley Students can sign up for Ruckus for FREE by using their berkeley.edu email address. Please sign up at the Ruckus website.

Details:

Free music streaming
$0.79 - $0.99 to permanently downloaded/burn or purchase song per track
Ruckus to Go $20.00/term (Fall, Spring, Summer)
Savings for Faculty, Staff and Alumni
Requires the Ruckus client
Syncs with certain portable audio players
Works only on PCs

Other Resources

Music United - Who Really Cares About Illegal Downloading?:
http://www.musicunited.org/1_whocares.html

Music United - What the Artists and Songwriters Have to Say
http://www.musicunited.org/3_artists.html

Music United - The Law
http://www.musicunited.org/2_thelaw.html

Contact

Legaldownloads is a service provided through IST - Information Services and Technology located at Hearst Field Annex, Building D on the UC Berkeley campus. For questions and comments please email rts@berkeley.edu.