The Nine Lives of Napster

lisa langsdorf writes "There's an interesting article on BusinessWeek.com today about Napster's race to gain greater market share in the music download business. According to a recent study, Apple has 75% of the pay for music download market, but Napster could soon gain more market share due to a new upcoming market push. BusinessWeek says: 'Napster could start to increase market share in the more profitable business of selling monthly subscriptions, where customers can listen to -- but not own -- as many songs as they want each month for $9.95. While Napster is far behind RealNetworks' Rhapsody service, AOL's MusicNet, and others, it's taking the lead again in the old Napster's stomping ground: college campuses.'"

Comments

Uh-uh.

[Hu's_on_first]

If it ain't free; it ain't for me!

iTMS Features Lock In As Well

[meehawl]

Unsubscribe, you lose all 'rights' to play?

Apple features lock in as well. You stop buying iPods or Apple technology, you lose all defacto rights to play what you "bought" - which you have really just rented from Apple for a long-duration-subscription once-off license fee.