Bertelsmann Looking At Pulling Plug On Napster

azaroth42 writes "The end of Napster has finally come according to the Guardian as German group Bertelsmann pull the plug on the already 'past its use by date' music service. And the same story on CNN."

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Jeeze!

[EnsilZah]

Why does the media keep beating this dead horse for.. what has it been? three years ?

I'd think they'd run out of foot to beat it with by now... =\

Napster - takes a nap

[fruey]

So, now they finally announce Napster is dead. Kinda like announcing today that

• Elvis Presley is dead
• Marilyn Monroe just got killed / committed suicide (do you believe the conspiracy theorists?)
• John F Kennedy was shot

On a positive note, at least now we can gauge just how far behind Bertelsmann are with technology using the equation x-y=z where x is the time Napster actually died (end 1999 when Audiogalaxy was flying) and y is today.

Now, we can await Napster II, the shite filesharing vehicle where you pay $$ too much per song and go to the press to cry that people won't pay for filesharing content and all that shite.