Napster Deal With Record Labels

Die, Napster, die!

so whats the definitive alternative to napster?

time to delete it.

napster is so dead it's fucking bloated. No way I'm paying $5.95 or even .02 for the crap that's on there now. please

Hooray, remember when CD prices were gonna drop?

They didn't.

ONE WORD :

KAZAA.COM , gg..

So, is this Realnetworks shit going to be encoding songs in .rm, or will it still be using .mp3?

It would figure that RealNetworks would try to distribute their own proprietary format. It would suck if that happens.

Steve, Not many napster users have left napster as napster, yahoo, microsoft and aol are STILL responsible for over 50 percent of the traffic on the intenet.

napster = sucks fat cock. i never liked it.

even though i downloaded like a fiend off it.

napster was awesome just because of the amount of people in the user base. I found all kinds of shit that was out of print and I couldn't buy anymore. I for one will be sad to see it go. But then again I believe I leeched enoough from it. :)~~~

Too Little, Too Late.

I remember seeing a few interviews at the Napster offices back when Metallica just started suing them and they were all smug and shit, playing football in the offices.

Looks like the only place they're going to be playing football now is at the unempoyment office!!!!!!!

all thieves should be caned in public.

Has anyone seen the demo of MusicNet a few weeks ago?

It redefines POS software. Not only do you have to pay to download the songs but you have to keep paying a renewal fee so the songs don't "expire".

I'm sure this is going to fly with the consumers especially when there's AudioGalaxy, iMesh, Kazaa/Morpheus, GNutella clones and the old methods of ftp, irc, newsgroups and hotline.

Alas, poor Napster... I knew him, Horatio!

Lets see how long it will take the RIAA to go after audiogalaxy and limewire. What about the tens of thousands of people sharing their MP3s via privately run FTPs?

I uninstalled napster last night. I have since met WinMX, Kaaza and Audiogalaxy. The demise of napster is of no consequence. All it does is spread the users out to the many other programs. There is no longer just one target anymore for the RIAA.

Piracy,

I can remember when PC games started being published in CD-Rom format only, no diskettes. The average price of a game jumped from thirty five and forty dollars to twice that, right up there with console game prices. Why did this happen, because the publishers figured they had piracy beat. They had a format that could not be copied by the average person. CD burners were very expensive and hence few in number. Suddenly the demand for CD burners went up and their price came down. Piracy went through the roof, so game companies lowered their prices dramatically.

The game companies could not very well sue Hewlett Packard et. al. for producing CD Burners, so they had to yield to market pressures and cut the prices back to something more reasonable. The RIAA can sue like hell to try and kill the MP3 format (much like they did with DAT via other methods). They went to town on Diamond over the Rio player and lost, they went to town on Napster and finally won.

I would be very interested to see some statistics regarding music sales as compared to the availability of CD Burners. Those things probably had at least as much, if not more, to do with bootleg copies of music than MP3s did.

fire bad... FIRE BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RIAA's efforts are as effective as pissing on a forest fire.

GG RIAA

Can't stop it now.

http://www.napigator.com/

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Thanks!

Your friends @
The Music Industry

Napster has just been uninstalled from my system.....

napster blows my ass, bunch of greedy pigs trying to swindle themselves into the new middlemen of the internet age, claiming to be inovative even though its just buggy coding with an old idea of peer-peer, kiss my ass shawn fanning.

Even worse, this is going to be "pay-per-song", likely upwards of $3 per song. Those bastard record companies will get it any freakin' way they can.

Limewire is a form of gnutella.

Sucks to be them.

RIAA sucks