This guy doesn’t like Napster and it shows in this writeup. More specifically he doesn’t like the fact that he never owns the music that he is paying for…errr renting. That is the basis of Napster’s new suscriptor service. One month you miss that annoying $15 payment and bam all your songs are usless.
What happens if Napster goes out of business? Do I no longer own the songs because I can no longer renew them? I’d rather buy to own than pay to rent.
I feel the same way. That’s why I still buy CDs instead of using any DRM-crippled service. When I rip them to MP3 I have full control over the output quality.
I have to totally disagree.
Before Napster I stole music via P2P in order to be able to listen to huge range of music that I couldn’t do otherwise. I only bought music I wanted a perfect copy of.
Now with Napster for $10 bucks a month I get access to unlimited music without having to pirate music. I can access my play list where ever I load up napster and play.
Now if you want to be able to burn a compilation onto CD then that is a different story. In which case just go buy the CD at the store or hack the stream or use P2P to get it.
As for Napster going out of business, then we would all go back to how were getting our music before.
Meow,
That’s the point I’ve been trying to make. Glad to see I’m not alone here. The subscription services are cheap and convient. I just don’t see what’s not to like (except for Napsters crappy UI).
Napster has a horrible UI, I don’t own the music, and the codec it uses is very subpar.
I’ll iTunes anyday over Napster unless major improvements are done.
Definately an itunes fan. Easily buy, burn and rerip music to the codec of my choice(which in this case is mp4/aac)
Here’s a little tid-bit that might make Napster’s ‘new math’ a little easier to deal with.
http://blog.kordix.com/marv/archives/000400.html
I’ve not tried this myself but according to the comments on the above page it seems to work quite nicely.
its funny, you guys think you arent pirating music if you pay napster $10 a month. do the artists get that money? arey ou buying their cd? oh…you hardly buy one cd and u can get unlimited songs, keep telling yourself you dont pirate music the artists are earning a lot of money off napster i bet! im sure napster sends them 9 out of the 10 dollars they get ;/