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Thursday, 17 February 2005 |
Friday File: Napster inadvertently returns to free downloads
eChannelLine - North York,Ontario,Canada
By now you've seen the commercials. According to Napster, it's much cheaper to
rent your music than to buy it. But perhaps it's cheaper still to rent it, steal
it, and then stop paying for it.
Napster's new subscription model, which allows users to download all the music
they want and use it on their favorite MP3 player (so long as it's not an iPod,
although credit for that little bit of pettiness goes to Apple and not Napster)
for the price of $15 per month.
So goes the logic with Napster -- if you buy an iPod, it will cost you $10,000
to fill it with music, based on a 40 GB iPod, buying music at $.99 per song.
That is, of course, assuming that one is purchasing a brand new 40 GB iPod
without owning a single song in a digital music format, however acquired, and
without a single CD or other traditional music source that they intend to rip
and put onto their new player. If there's anyone out there who is willing to
drop in the neighborhood of $500 for a device that they can't do anything with,
please contact me -- I'm sure I've got a Commodore VIC 20 sitting around here
somewhere that will fill your needs.
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