Some MIT students tried this with music CDs in a project called LAMP (the Library Access to Music Project) back in the early 2000s. Kids could use the internet

Some MIT students tried this with music CDs in a project called LAMP (the Library Access to Music Project) back in the early 2000s. Kids could use the internet to select and listen to CDs played automatically via jukeboxes over one of 16 dedicated cable channels, which was hooked up to the audio for their chosen CD. As far as I know, it's still running over there on campus, perfectly legal (though a current student could tell us for sure - I haven't tried to use it since 2006.) So there's some precedent for this sort of scheme working without lawyers descending on it. Of course, suing students would have been far more uncouth than suing a for-profit organization. http://lamp.mit.edu/lamp-qa.html http://lamp.mit.edu/lamp-qa.html