Napster Pre-Paid Cards

G4Outcast writes "According to this CNN Money article, Napster will be offering pre-paid cards costing $14.85 at several retail locations. I guess the iTunes gift certificate and allowance idea is catching on."

Comments

The beginning of the end.

[Masque]

How long will it be until we see Howie Long and Hulk Hogan singing a duet about an online music service?

"A dollar! Why, you can get a song up to 20 minutes long for just NINETY-NINE cents! Just dial 10-10-NAP-STER!"

*bangs head on desk*

Correct me if I'm wrong...

[Undaar]

...but shouldn't a gift certificate to steal things be free? :)

And in other news....

[batura]

Napster will be offering the public a new, improved failed business plan.

Re:Best Buy?

[Trigun]

To make a compilation, or to give as a gift to your bratty nephew because you don't know what kind of heroin induced crap he's listening to this week.
Take your pick.

Re:Where's Napster's Suger?

[DrEldarion]

It's Napster! They don't HAVE to have a business plan to make money! (at least last time they didn't)

Get out of jail free card!

[BigGerman]

Sorry could not resist.

Just wait until SCO hears about this.

[rock_climbing_guy]

Just in case we forget to pay up our SCO $699 license fees, SCO will sell gift cards to our friends who can give them to us.

The SCO gift card could be the hottest item on the market this Christmas season.

Answer

[m_niessner]

The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby : $0.99
The Who's Greatest Hits: $9.99
War - Low Rider : $0.99

Getting Slapped with a $100,000 lawsuit by the RIAA for downloading from Kazzaa instead of Napster: Priceless

Re:Dumb question

[public_class_name_ex]

You mean you don't enjoy the hidden software which installs itself and facilitates the targeting of advertisements at you while you browse the web? For me this not only alleviates the guilt of sharing files, but also helps me realise I really do need to order a tiny web cam sold by women in provocative clothing.

what a deal?

[blanks]

Do they really think this will work? Why would people go to a store that sells music to buy one of these cards when they can just buy the music while they are at the store?

So your options are.
1 Buy music at store
2 Buy card to download same music you could have bought at store.
3 Buy beer and download music for free.

I could really use a drink.

What about quality control?

[queen of everything]

Back in the day, before Napster died, you would have to download 3 versions of the same song before you got one that was encoded well and/or a complete song. If you get 15 downloads, what happens when you get a bad mp3? What if its a live version instead of the studio version? If its still a music swapping service, all these are possibilities. I won't pay almost $1 for half a song.