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Napster Business Model Not Generating Revenue
An anonymous reader writes "We all know that Apple generates revenue from iTMS via hardware sales. How the hell can pureplay music stores like Napster generate revenue enough to even stay alive? They don't. Is this the first indication of the bubble bursting? Is it time to figure out what to do when your Napster WMA files go unsupported after Napster 2 dies?"
fuh.
Interesting? The word "probably", written below a sentence quoted from the story?
Are you people on drugs?
It is official; Netcraft confirms: NAPSTER* is dying One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered NAPSTER* community when IDC confirmed that NAPSTER* market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all online music marketers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that NAPSTER* has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. NAPSTER* is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test. You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict NAPSTER*'s future. The hand writing is on the wall: NAPSTER* faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for NAPSTER* because NAPSTER* is dying. Things are looking very bad for NAPSTER*. As many of us are already aware, NAPSTER* continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Napster2 is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Napster* developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Napster2 is dying. Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers. Napster1 leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Napster1. How many users of Napster1 are there? Let's see. The number of Napster1 versus Napster2 posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Napster1 users. Kazaa posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NAPSTER* posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put NAPSTER* at about 80 percent of the NAPSTER* market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 NAPSTER* users. This is consistent with the number of NAPSTER* Usenet posts. Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, NAPSTER* went out of business and was taken over by RIAA who sell another troubled product. Now RIAA is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house. All major surveys show that NAPSTER* has steadily declined in market share. NAPSTER* is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If NAPSTER* is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. NAPSTER* continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, NAPSTER* is dead. Fact: NAPSTER* is dying
there is another way to explain this.. what if ordinary slashdot readers were given mod points. /me shudders.
Uhmm.. I don't get it.
You can now have great fun taking all your vast "*BSD is Dying" screeds, and re-posting them with "Napster" substituted for *BSD ! Do this, for fun, and profit, and negative mod points! (of which I will likely accuminate one for this message myself)
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
this just in OSS doesn't make you rich!!!! giving stuff away for free doesn't make money!!! OMG don't let it be true!!! communism must live on!!!
What a stupid program! But it has a good CD-cover editor.
hahaha you are funny. Do you FUCK HORSES?
Yo "sport" do you think you could use "sport" in a more corret manner. See Definition below.
n.
1.
1. Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively.
2. A particular form of this activity.
2. An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
3. An active pastime; recreation.
4.
1. Mockery; jest: He made sport of his own looks.
2. An object of mockery, jest, or play: treated our interests as sport.
3. A joking mood or attitude: She made the remark in sport.
5.
1. One known for the manner of one's acceptance of rules, especially of a game, or of a difficult situation: a poor sport.
2. Informal. One who accepts rules or difficult situations well.
3. Informal. A pleasant companion: was a real sport during the trip.
6. Informal.
1. A person who lives a jolly, extravagant life.
2. A gambler at sporting events.
7. Biology. An organism that shows a marked change from the normal type or parent stock, typically as a result of mutation.
8. Maine. See summercater. See Regional Note at summercater.
9. Obsolete. Amorous dalliance; lovemaking.
v. sported, sporting, sports
v. intr.
1. To play or frolic.
2. To joke or trifle.
3. Biology. To mutate.
v. tr.
To display or show off: "His shoes sported elevated heels" (Truman Capote).
adj. or sports
1. Of, relating to, or appropriate for sports: sport fishing; sports equipment.
2. Designed or appropriate for outdoor or informal wear: a sport shirt.
or a lame ass AC either!
No. But I enjoy watching my horse fucking your mom.
Do you think CmdrTaco is offended when I write crap in his story?
They should run it from India.......[SWAAAACK!]
Table-ized A.I.
For most of the informed readers, it not a matter of overlooking Apple's DRM, but a matter of recognizing its fairness and utility to users: iTunes Music Store's "FairPlay" is pretty consumer-friendly.
While I don't know all the details of Napster's DRM (I use iTMS), I do know that WindowsMediaPlayer is *not* as consumer friendly as iTunes - a prime example being that WMediaPlayer will burn a disc in WMA format by default rather than something most CD players or computers could handle (e.g. an audio cd or mp3)
Make everyone "technically" a criminal in some manner (draconian laws), and ensure they don't 1) know any better (lousy public education) and 2) don't have time to change things even if they did understand (increasing work hours without compensation).
The irony in the current presidential races is that all the canidates are representing parties that support such a situation. Republicans have their corporate buddy-buddy shenanigans and labor issues, while Democrats have their war on drugs, the war on the environment, and the war on the rich (thicker irony in the fact that all the canidates are wealthy). November 2004 is a lose-lose race for everyone. I don't even have to get into secret society theories about Kerry and Bush, either--the problems are transparent right on the surface for all to see.
Vote in November. You won't regret it.