A small revolt has broken out at Cornell University over the school's use of the Napster music subscription service.

The Cornell Daily Sun has been bombarded with letters from current and past students with many of the missives complaining about the anti-Apple stance of Napster. Cornell is currently running a trial of the Napster service, which leaves close to 20 percent of its students without access to the free music downloads. Napster only supports the Windows 2000 and XP operating systems.

"Perhaps even more troubling is that the most popular portable MP3 player, Apple's iPod, also does not work with Napster," writes one student in a letter to the school paper. "An estimated 50-70 percent of Cornell students with such players have iPods, according to Cornell Information Technologies."

Cornell is one of the very few - 8 total - schools that swallowed Napster's music rental service line. In many cases, the schools are providing Napster for free at the moment, but then warning that all students will be required to pay for Napster down the road. This is the case at Cornell and is clearly disheartening to the Mac crowd.

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