Comments on: Napster to go doesn’t add up

By: lolol

lolol — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 22:18:39 +0000

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 ;/

By: James Colyer

James Colyer — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:02:15 +0000

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.

By: Manny Fleurmond

Manny Fleurmond — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 02:33:47 +0000

Definately an itunes fan. Easily buy, burn and rerip music to the codec of my choice(which in this case is mp4/aac)

By: Chris G.

Chris G. — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:40:37 +0000

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.

By: Christopher Baus

Christopher Baus — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:06:57 +0000

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).

By: Meow

Meow — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:17:37 +0000

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.

By: Vinnie Garcia

Vinnie Garcia — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:13:20 +0000

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.