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New Napster Off To A Solid Start
Anonymous Superhero writes "From Wired magazine Napster 2.0 has a sleek design and makes exploring new music a pleasure. The most nagging problem? The confusing licensing issues. A review by Katie Dean." I haven't tried it yet - still using the iTunes store.
I think I'm not the first one to say this, but please, pretty please, stop licking Apple's ass, it's VERY FUCKING ANNOYING.
> I haven't tried it yet - still using the iTunes store.
Even the editors have joined the recent Mac-fanboy invasion. Soon, no article will be posted without reference to why Apple is better than <insert article topic here>.
I liked this place better when it was all Linux zealots. *sigh*
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who the FUICK cares?
Here is a link to a review of the new Napster that was previously featured on Slashdot.
I mean, if you download music without paying through the nose for it, the RIAA get PO-ed.
Simple equation. 'Complex licencing issues' my butt! They hate all file-share services. There will never be a P2P worth using, as long as the biggest powers in the world are still functioning under a capitalist economy based on greed. In my opinion, that's the bottom line. I prefer not to place myself in line to be sued. So I ignore all P2P services. The megacorps make life hard enough, what with wanting to ban all free software, and directly controll my PC, so why give 'em an opening to blast me by using these things. I mean P2P to the RIAA is like a red rag to a bull. Vive freedom! Down with corporations. but until that glorious day, I'll steer clear of P2P.
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I mean, it really does suck. Bad.
I've bought home gym equipment in the past. i have no trouble paying a gym a monthly fee for access to more equipment that i could reasonably store in my home.
Oh wait.. maybe i should have chosen an example that slashdotters could relate to..
I've tried Napster, it totally fucking sucks. The artists page look like an advertisement from Spin Magazine. The music choice is limited to the Big 5. It's slow, unintuitive, and the radio stations suck.
iTunes, I'm afraid, is the cat's meow.
This comment wasn't funny the first time it was posting in the iTunes story...
WTF kind of crack are you moderators smoking this time?
I haven't tried it yet - still using the iTunes store.
*Of course* you're using the iTunes store. That goes without saying. Your mind was made up before Napster even came out. All Slashdot has become recently is an Apple "iWorship" festival. Every Apple-related story makes the front page (as well as where they should be, apple.slashdot.org) and attracts hundreds of irrational, biased, but sincere fanboy posts. You editors have all switched to Macs and have given up on your "open source" ethics. You ignore Apple Corporation's cutthroat behavior, the same sort of behavior that you would attack Microsoft relentlessly for. You have left me wondering where your true loyalties lie -- it's certainly not with open source culture, which I once thought, or fairness, which I hoped. Your personal preference is obvious with every snide pro-mac comment you make. With that one comment, you have taken an article about Napster doing well and subverted it, making it into a forum for "why iTunes is better". Your comment, coming from an editor, has far more weight than a reader's comment. You should know better than to personally promote one product over another. You have no journalistic integrity. In short, you suck because of your bias.
And btw, I am a happy Windows2000 user and have no connection to Apple, Microsoft, Slashdot, or the open source people. I don't care much about what operating system people use, since they all work fine for 99% of the tasks we ask them to perform. I do, however, care about integrity and honesty, and I have found Slashdot to be nothing more than a paid ad for Apple Computers. I just thought Slashdot was above this sort of yellow journalism, and am quite disappointed.