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Self Delusional Idiot.

Yeah, when you were the REAL napster. Freebie's.

MDN Magic word "earlier" as in, Earlier Napster had a hold of peer to peer, but now they are just another Real Player, Hoping to do wha everyone else is doing...

Ya right!

Ya know, if you have to talk about how much better you are than your competion, then the competion is usually the victor.

Ah. They name their rival. Free publicity. Thanks Napster.

I'm a fan of ITMS. It's a great thing. I hate DRM though, so I've only ever bought one song from it.

Fairplay may be the best, but it's still DRM, and DRM sucks.

Can't sell your old Fairplay songs on eBay, so you're paying for something that immediately loses all it's value.

these companies with their ipod/itms killers just sound petty and stupid when they attack apple. it's even worse when apple stomps 'em. if they just released something and were proud of it and didn't trash their competition, maybe they'd get somewhere, and if they fail, at least they wouldn't look like fscking morons.

Oh yeah I remember Apple just recently ousted Google as the biggest "brand" on a list and I don't think Napster was even on that list.

Bill: We are proud to introduce M$ BOB! This is what the consumer want in an OS !!!!!

If you really are the industry leader, you never mention your competitor by name?

Gorog spelled backwards is Gorog!

What's up with that?

Hee hee hee, I’ll have whatever Chris Dorog is drinking!!!!

Napster was once ... my favorit !
M$ and now Napster start crying it out, just because Apple is on its second coming !

Chris Gorog is right, he just forgot a few words:

"the biggest brand (of crap) in digital music..."

Napster obviously hasn't seen the reports on how Apple is the brand of the year, even over prized Google.

Hi Webmaster's Apprentice, I believe the term is called Palindrome, on in French “ par-le-drunk”.

Napster to Apple:

We're the leaders, we're the leaders!! Do you hear me up there? WE are the leaders!! Slow down, Apple, and let us lead. PLEASE?

kind of a weak take, mdn. with the material gorog provided, i expected more.

Talk about a "reality distortion field"...sheesh

Napsters latest and greatest...$179.40 (per year) and when at the end you can no longer afford to pay them, you get the "Neal and Bob" cause you have nothing to show for your Money. Now that is DRM...

*creek* *creek* *creek* *creek*

Napster CEO, "Damn it, who let the crickets in here!?!"

Who's Napster? Wasn't that some music file sharing application that got squashed by those RIAA monsters or something?!

Yeh, go on fooling yourself, but it isn't going to help.

The magic word is "hear" -- hear for whom the bell tolls.

"The release will be accompanied by a major $30 million marketing campaign..."

$30 million? That's it? Steve Jobs crapped $30 million after breakfast this morning. You're gonna have to do better than that! I tell ya what Chris, give the $30 million to me instead. I won't spend a dime of it on your business, so, you see, the outcome will be just the same as it will with you spending it on marketing.

I don't quite get this subscription idea. Do you have to give the music back after a certain date? How is this enforceable?

I suspect people would use this if there was no way to prevent you from using it after a certain date. If not why would you rent music? Music doesn't lose it's appeal on first playing.

DRM is to iTunes
as
one button mouse is to Macs

let it rest, for the love of God.

I'm not Chris Gorog because clearly I would know my own business, then again maybe not

"Rage, rage against the dying of the light." Amazing that Dylan Thomas could have heard about Darth Gorog.

The name Napster is still associated with illegal music downloading. It's like letting you child molesting uncle watch your kids because he's cheaper than the cheerleader next door.

where's this guy's email?

I'll bet that even LimeWire is bigger than Napster right now

Is Napster leading the industry? Maybe. But in the wrong direction.

" makes costly download-only stores seem antiquated by comparison."

Does this mean they are ending their antiquated download store? Doubtful.

How does this even work? What happens when your 2-week vacation falls on the date your songs expire? Your credit card has been billed but if you don't snyc your Creative/iRiver the songs expire? That will never work.

Magic word = child, Gorog as the mind of a child.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY;=/www/story/02-03-2005/0002946746&EDATE;=

http://www.prnewswire.com/news/index_mail.shtml?ACCT=104&STORY;=/www/story/02-03-2005/0002946746&EDATE;=

10 million ipods sold (cumulative), 250 million songs sold on iTunes Music Store. That's only 25 per ipod, and I bet a lot of songs were sold to people without ipods or any portable player. Buy some individual songs, burn a cd, play it on any cd player in the world The music download business is still in its infancy. (no point, just comments)

Hywel is doing more for the cause of No-DRM than anyone. Even for the people using Hymn, each song they purchase is sending the signal (to the tune of 250 million songs) that "DRM IS GOOD".

One word...

BOLLOCKS!

Napster brand means zero to anyone over 18 years old.

End of story... R.I.P Napster.

MDN SHOULD STOP MAKING UP TITLE THAT DO NOT REFLECT WHAT THE CONTENT OF ITS SUBJECT IS ALL ABOUT!

Napster CEO: We're 'the biggest brand in digital music, much more exciting than Apple's iTunes'

That's a lie MDN, the CEO never said it the way you put it. he said "Napster To Go provides infinitely greater value and is much more exciting than the iTunes pay-per-download model".

MSD. you are loosing credibility to the eyes of many. Cut the crap.

this guy reminds me of that guy (iraqi information minister?) that kept saying saddams army was winning the whole time when we were already in the bagdad and had won the war...

didn't he commit suicide?


he was delusional as well

$30 million will just about pay for 1 30 second superbowl advert!

Oh - well, that was a quick marketing campaign... anyone remember waht it was about????

"How does this even work? What happens when your 2-week vacation falls on the date your songs expire? Your credit card has been billed but if you don't snyc your Creative/iRiver the songs expire? That will never work. "

I believe what happens, is that once you quit making your monthly payments and you hook up your MP3 player to your computer, then your computer erases all the songs you've downloaded thru the subscription service. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Wonder how long it's going to take someone to crack that DRM? And won't the record companies be happy? I.e. subscribe for one month, download a few thousand songs, crack the encrytion, then cancel the subscription. Whoo hoo!

MDN makes money when you click an article, Boeing777, they want you to click, to read what they right, and click back, not RTFA.

notice how many more ads there are lately?

MDN is biased, opinionated, and sometimes just flat out wrong.

but. if you know all of that, you can read through the crap. like drudgereport. I mean, MDN does find some neat stories.

this post, most appropriatly, brought to you by the word "truth"

How much would it be to buy out Napster just to shut him up?

Another monthly fee! Yeah, that's what America wants! Utilities, cable, internet, TiVo, XM, just pile 'em on!

Am I the only one would think long and hard about adding another $15 onto my monthly expenses even if I WANTED Napster's piece-o-crap service? We are monthly-fee'ing ourselves into the ground, one service at a time.

The only thing Napster ever lead with was showing people how to steal music! Well, I guess if that "is what consumers want's" they should know.

Hywel,
If you hate DRM's then just keep buying CD's and rip them to iTunes, it works great!

hey boeing,

I kick your ass!

if a tree falls in the forest, and no one was there to hear it, does teh bear still wipe his behind with a fluffy white rabbit?

"...MSD. you are loosing credibility to the eyes of many. Cut the crap..." - Boeing 777


First, who the hell is MSD? Second, how can you lose credibility when you didn't have any to begin with??? Zing!

Chill out, monkey boy.


MDN magic word: wanted ...as in the sign that Boeing777 posted: "WANTED: something better to do."

http://www.applematters.com/comments.php?id=273_0_1_0_C

Thhe applematters take on why subs suck. I liked it and agree that subs aren't going anywhere

Napster says "do the math", then Gorog says "infinitely greater value." He wants you to do the math 'cause he can't do it himself.