Once upon a time, a SIPB member, keithw, was given a large amount of money by Microsoft to work on a project. LAMP is the result: SIPB's response to the DMCA, where sharing music is concerned. It was Spotify before Spotify, Napster but less questionable. It was decomissioned in November of 2016. Keith is also known for MOSH, the mobile shell, and is now a professor at Stanford.

How did it work? MIT has a license for radio broadcast; it also had (until 2017ish) a coaxial cable television network. By way of a complicated loophole, LAMP let people queue a playlist (which needed to be of a certain length) which would be broadcast over the television network. Inside LAMP are many CD changers and CDs with available music (all courtesy of Microsoft).

Website: lamp.mit.edu

Git: https://github.com/sipb/lamp-www

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