New Legit Napster Service Coming

Serith submitted a CNN story talking about the new Napster Service. This is of course an attempt to legitimize music sharing. Provided the price point is fair and paying is convenient, I'll be first in line. Of course the odds of that happening seems awfully weak.

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Dig the pink pussy

[dudemaster]

So it looks like the "New Napster" will have a pretty femine look/feel if the image on that site is representative of what's to come.

Re:It's a one-way road

[Blue Stone]

"Napster was never about "free music." Napster was always about community, about "sharing my collection--my very own, personal, idiosyncratic collection.""

This is not a troll, and I'm not anti-P2P at all, but Napster was about free music, and indeed, stealing music, (in as much as copying can be stealing....although of course it cannot.)

The word Napster, was derived from the word "nap" which is listed as:
nap nap, vt to seize; to steal. [Cf Swed nappa Dan and Norw nappe to catch or snatch; relation to nab uncertain]

The intention of the site, I would argue by light of it's name, no accident I am certain, was to "steal" music.
At least that's what it was to the creator of the site.