Slashdot Mirror
Review of Pay Napster
An Anonymous Coward writes: "A beta tester for the recently released subscription version of Napster has anonymously posted his impressions of the new service. He finds it remarkably similar to the old one, both good '... browsing through a real person's music collection, sending them messages and recommending them new music' and bad '... broken tracks, cancelled transfers and a complete inability to stream or preview tracks.' The service allows 50 tracks a month, but there was little decent content to fill those slots. Messages to other beta testers found mixed reactions among fellow users. Still, the writer holds out some optimism for Napster's chances."
Most of the tracks on (the new) Napster are in a proprietary format, which means that (if you copied them somewhere else) they wouldn't work. At all. In fact, I wouldn't be at all surprised if it set off some sort of alarm. Or made your computer explode.
AARghhh...
TANSTAAFI: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free iPod.
Seriously, does anybody expect this pay-for-mp3's thing to take off?
Napster now is like a little animal that got hit by a car but refuses to die. There's blood everywhere, and it just keeps flopping around prolonging the inevitable. They're only bringing shame to themselves at this point. It's pathetic.
Could they just hurry up and die already?
___
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason. --Ben Franklin
I worked at Napster for a year.
The only thing I can say is they are getting
what they deserve. Any company that treats people
like napster treated their employees, deserves
to die a slow painful death, what they are doing.
I was the 6th systems administrator in less than 2 years to quit, and apparently 4 have quit since I left. The only ironic part is after I left, they fired the main sources of problems.. their incompetent executive staff.. Their IT manager was fired thank goodness, he was a nepotism hire by their vp of engineering Eddie Kessler, who was also fired.
Let them rot, and let the music be free.
"And how can this be? For he is the
If only there was something like that available...
We've reviewed the 5000-word review at "http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2002/paynapste r.html", and, well, seeing as how there are a hundred billion other P2P file-sharing applications in the Galaxy (and at least a hundred on Earth alone), and only a limited amount of space in the book's database, we've had to trim it a bit.
"Sucks ass"
On how many days it takes for nap2mp3.exe to appear on usenet? Hell, I had a activation-free copy of XP Pro about six weeks before it was actually released, I would think the hacker community could knock out a .nap to .mp3 converter over a six-pack.
This tagline is umop apisdn.
In fact, I wouldn't be at all surprised if it set off some sort of alarm. Or made your computer explode.
It can happen. It was reported in the Weekly World News
That's an interesting idea. After that file has been share a few million times, the download will fly! 100:1 compression eat your heart out.
Kind thoughts do not change the world
An Ex-Girlfriend told me once.... "Just Let It Go....its over"
You keep going until you die..."Me".