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PressPlay + Roxio?

Posted by Hemos on from the we're-getting-the-band-back-together dept.

securitas writes "The NY Times and the LA Times (via SJ Mercury News) report that Roxio is close to a $30 million deal to buy Pressplay from Universal and Sony. The struggling joint-venture has less than 50,000 subscribers after three years. Roxio bought the Napster brand and assets at a bankruptcy auction last year and plans to resurrect Napster as a legal service."

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  1. Re:The reason people steal music by telstar · · Score: 4, Funny
    "I honestly feel that the decline of music quality and the tiredness of the rock genre after nearly 50 years of three-chord songs has helped to contribute to the alarming rate at which people steal music from online sources."
    • Damnit! I finally felt that I'd accomplished something after learning a few chords on my new guitar and this guy has to open his mouth.

  2. Legal service.... heh by HowlinMad · · Score: 5, Funny

    Roxio bought the Napster brand and assets at a bankruptcy auction last year and plans to resurrect Napster as a legal service.

    Yea, I am going to let Napster represent me in a court of law!!

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  3. Re:The reason people steal music by MojoMonkey · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just learn one more chord...

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  4. Don't buy from music services by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny
    As a matter of principle. The simple fact is that Intellectual property is immoral, wrong, and nobody has a right to control ideas. By buying services such as these one supports commercial monopolisation backed and maintained by unjust government force of simple ideas that should be free.


    Similarly, the best way to hurt the intellectual property merchants is not through creating alternatives, but by overwhelming "piracy". Creating alternatives, whether free software or free music, only encourages and reinforces the idea that it is right and just that these companies maintain their disgraceful and unjust forceful monopolies.


    A better, more powerfull blow is to encourage fullscale and massive piracy of every one of these attempted monopolies on ideas. Pirate Microsoft Windows, do not use Linux. pirate music, do not create free alternatives. In this way, when the great majority of people are breaking the law, but effectively demanding their rights through action, the law will have to be amended. In a democracy, the criminalisation of the overhwleming majority will not be countenanced.


    Pirate well, and pirate today, for Justice!

  5. Go Roxio! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was wondering what was next for Roxio. They made EZ-CD creator the most reliable, bug-free piece of software I ever used. I wondered where they were going to redirect their efforts since EZ-CD is so perfect it will never need updates or support ever again. I was worried their staff would be fired or have to sit around bored because their wonderful perfect EZ-CD creator has no bugs to fix and generates no support calls to return. Now their very bored staff will have something to do. Moving resources into new effort might challenge companies lesser than Roxio, but when you write perfect software like they do, you'll have plenty of time left over to make all your new plans successful. Go roxio!

  6. Re:Speaking of Napster by Shenkerian · · Score: 5, Funny

    For the staff's personal mp3 collections, of course.

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