Here comes my review of Ruckus, the music service provided free to Penn State students as part of an attempt to reduce piracy.  Last year the lovely Napster service was provided, which, although at times irritating as it would not allow one to download select popular songs for free, was ad free and simple.  Then came Ruckus…I am not sure if Ruckus was an attempt to increase piracy, or what, but it is horrific.  We are talking software engineers who must have been high bad.  First of all, as with Napster, Ruckus does not support OS X.  Sort of.  There is no native support, however, virtualization works quite well on my MacBook Pro, so I have a dedicated virtual machine that I use to access Ruckus and the occasional other piece of dreadful XP only software I may need.  The worst part of Ruckus in my opinion is the horrifically, shockingly, disturbingly, astronomical amount of popups and deceptive advertisements.  The other huge chink in Ruckus’ armour is the fact that when downloading songs one cannot simply use the Ruckus client, one must use a web browser, download a textish file, open it with the Ruckus browser and then it works.  Whew.  That was tiring.  All in all Ruckus does have its uses, and it is nice to be able to find that latest popular rap song that you definitely would not pay for, but secretly are obsessed with.  I give it 2 out of 5 stars because of the difficulty in use, as well as the frequent advertisements.