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HP Dumped Napster for Apple
Pieter Townshend writes "Found on GMSV: 'In the days leading up to Napster's re-launch last October, a deal that would have put Napster links on millions of Hewlett-Packard computers went bad. HP withdrew from the agreement at the last minute, its reasons for doing so becoming clear three months later when it announced a surprise partnership with Apple to feature the iTunes Music store on HP computers and sell Hewlett-Packard branded iPod music players.'"
>>Also it does cost $.99 do download the song
>>form Napster, so you have to pay for access
>>then to download. From Napsters
>>(www.napster.com) front page "Choose your own
>>tracks for $0.99 each, or get the whole
>>enchilada for just $9.95 per album."
You're confusing two different things.
Napster allows the following:
1) Subscribe for $10 a month and have unlimited download access to songs, you can not burn these but can download so as long as you are a subscriber. The vast majority of the library can be accessed by download but there are a select songs that are 'buy only'
2) Purchase a single track for $0.99. No subscription required.
3) Purchase a single album for $9.99. No subscription required. It's a one time purchase and not tied to anything else.
I know it was half-joke, but it's not that Apple DRM is good, it's that Apple's DRM policies are recognize fair use rights. The only serious complaint I have heard about the format you get from iTunes is that you have to burn to CD and then rip that to get MP3, which results in potential loss of quality. But the ausio CD you burn from the protected AAC file is a redbook compliant audio CD with no restrictions on it.
apple makes about 27% profit margin on all hardware, ipods included. Their PR for investors explains this.
Sleep is for the weak.
Actually, the newest versions of WMA DRM don't work on OSX.
- The Amazina Llama