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Bertelsman Seeks to Buy Napster

Posted by timothy on from the buy-it-all-let-god-sort-them-out dept.

jbc writes: "SF Gate is one of several places carrying the story that Bertelsman, which already invested a significant amount of money in Napster, is now looking to buy Napster outright. This is based on an interview with Bertelsman CEO Thomas Middelhoff that was published last week in the German newspaper Die Welt."

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  1. Napster? by ZaneMcAuley · · Score: 0, Redundant



    How many users use Napster nowdays? What is left to buy if the userbase has left?

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  2. who cares by koekepeer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    see subject. how many people do they expect to pay for music downloads? pay-per-hear/view is a stupid concept, and won't work as a business model for bertelsmann/napster.

    just my 2eurocents

  3. Don't get your hopes up by sjmurdoch · · Score: 0, Redundant
    BMG don't have a history of embracing technology, as shown by the ill-advised deployment of copy protection on their CDs.


    Unfortunately they didn't learn their lesson and are still producing more broken CDs that don't play on normal equipment and have been rumoured to damage CD players.

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