Napster's Future..

[urbantechie]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1181000/1181669.stm

 

[konichiwa]

Methinks you are a tad late.

 

[urbantechie]

It says how much it will be charging damnit!

 

[OutlawWolf]

I hope they just stay the way they are now.

 

[b0red]

$10 for unlimited downloads?!?! ick!

 

[Wingnut]

<< Napster officials say they are proposing to pay five major record companies $150m per year for five years, using the revenues generated by a new subscription service. >>



The thing that gets me is if Napster truly believes if they weren't infringing on copyright, why would they agree to pay such a hefty sum? They should have stood their ground and told the record companies to f$ck off!!

Now BMG are partners huh? The same companies that tried to stomp out Napster all of a sudden now have an interest in it...what an amazing group of money hungry cornholes these companies are!:| I just hope they share this newfound wealth with their recording artists, parcticularly bigger signing bonuses for the new guys!

 

[SweetTooth]

Yeah this is old new's, but I certainly hope napster is here to stay



It has introduced me to so much old time great music. I dont even download any of today's new
(READ : Crap) Britney Spears, Justin TimberGAYke crap. I download the oldies and goodies like Guns N Roses, Nirvana, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, etc

 

[Wingnut]

Same here Sweet Tooth. I mainly use Napster for the hard to find stuff that record stores want to charge $35.00 to special order, parcticularly the older tunes and bands.

Earlier Rush, older Peppers tunes, Tubes, Steely Dan, Gerry Rafferty..etc. etc. It's great to have these tunes in their purest form...(192kb/s and up)

 

[Bluga]

well......nm

 

[focusyn]

yah i gotta go with SweetTooth and Wingnut here... i've been introduced to a lot of new music that i wouldn't have even heard of if it weren't for napster.