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Napster is coming back! As if anyone cares.

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Lifer
I was over at Napster.com and saw the preview page for the new service.
It basically talks about the new subscription based model they are going to try. I highly doubt it's going to work out. Who is going to want to pay.

One thing of particular interest from the new Napster FAQ is this:

Will I be able to play the music I get through Napster on my portable player?

Yes and no. Some music will be shared in MP3 format, and you'll have all the freedom with those files that you do with any MP3s. In order to give artists and copyright holders choices about how their music is shared, we've created a new secure file format that defines how the file can be used. You won't be able to play those files -- called NAP files -- on your portable player at the launch of the new service. Our goal is to obtain licenses that allow you to play that music on your portable player; we'll get there as soon as possible.



Just how long do you think those NAP files will stay secure? Probably less time that the SDMI stuff.


What a joke. Morpheus rocks anyway. 😀
 


<< Just how long do you think those NAP files will stay secure? Probably less time that the SDMI stuff. What a joke. Morpheus rocks anyway. >>


almost what I was thinking
"wonder how many seconds after the first .NAP file is downloaded untill the converter program is released"
 
Hahaha. 🙂

Ouch, though. Poor Napster. They were the best. Imagine what it must be like, to have that happen to you... eek, I'd be pissed!

-RSI
 


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<< Just how long do you think those NAP files will stay secure? Probably less time that the SDMI stuff. What a joke. Morpheus rocks anyway. >>


almost what I was thinking
"wonder how many seconds after the first .NAP file is downloaded untill the converter program is released" >>


The way things are going these days there will probably be a conversion tool available before the files are even pubically available.
 
I have a program that cracks .wma files so that time limits and whatnot on them dont bother you. The people will never be stopped on the internet 😛
 
hahah whats napster? DO u mean Morpheus and bearshare?

Actually bearshare sucks, as soon as i installed morpheus, Bearshare was removed from my comp!
 
<< we've been blown away by the number of Napster users who've continued to download the software and use it to organize and play their music. >>

Does anyone still have Napster installed on their computer? How many people are still logged in at any given time? Maybe back when the service was at its peak, I might have considered paying, but since NO ONE's using it, it's worthless. What a joke.
 
Now somebody explain this for me. If I play one of these secure music files on my PC, I can tell my Santa Cruz to output the audio through the digital out, not just through the speakers. I could then use a stand-alone CD recorder to record that bitstream to a CD-R...at that point, the track would be "freed" permanently from any secure wrapper, correct? Would there be an intermediary A->D conversion in the Santa Cruz?

I can just see people finding ways around this limitation. It's rather stupid not being able to play these files on a portable player...or frankly anything BUT your PC.
 
my gf's brother, who is 23, has a multi million dollar company that does this $hit.... its www.dmod.com .... they started off as a company that does real time multi key encryption or somethin like that.. the do a lot more now.. different companies ask them to write different kinds of software.. but check their site out and it'll explain somewhat on how that stuff works...
~macka

btw here's the linky dmod
 
i guess no one is excited about my gf's brother's company.. well.. being someone who hasn't paid for a single piece of software or anything for the last 5 years.. i dont really agree wiht what he does.. but i'm definately taking an interest in his company and investing when it goes public
 
i guess no one is excited about my gf's brother's company.. well.. being someone who hasn't paid for a single piece of software or anything for the last 5 years.. i dont really agree wiht what he does.. but i'm definately taking an interest in his company and investing when it goes public
 
ya my internet is fed up tonight... either the at&t broadband bein sucky.. or its our sucky dlink router
 
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