Napster To Campaign Aggressively Against iPod

rocketjam writes "Forbes reports that Napster plans an aggressive marketing campaign against Apple's iPod as part of its subscription service full launch later this quarter. Napster's service uses Microsoft's Janus technology to enable DRM protected music files 'bought' through subscription services to be transferred from a PC to a portable music player. Napster CEO Chris Gorog said the company is betting heavily that their monthly 'all you can eat' subscription service will win the battle for online digital music services, claiming, 'It's exactly what consumers want to do. Napster To Go is very similar to the P2P experience.' He believes the best way to market the service is to emphasize its advantages over iTunes and its iPod-only compatibility. 'We're going to be communicating to people that it's stupid to buy an iPod.' Maybe I'm too old to get it, but I fail to see the attraction of paying a monthly fee for as long as I want to have access to my music." Of course, if Napster To Go supported iPod, they'd have a much larger install base to convince to use their service, instead of still pleading people to buy a portable player with compatible DRM installed.

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eh0d put an apple in my pussy

[eh0d is my daddy]

Preamble

I have a theory. I think that when you get a normal girl in front of a webcam, she becomes a whore. A cam whore. Now, I certainly don't mean that she'll fuck anything that moves, although this may be the case. I mean that her exhbitionistic tendencies will come out and she'll start doing weird things on cam. Exposing herself, flashing some sweet tittie to whoever might be watching or just being a tease. Don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining. I like to watch some cam whore tease a bunch of guys just as much as the next totally heterosexual male aged 18 - 40. However, a while ago I got the opportunity to &quotdirect" one of these cam sessions with a normal girl who just got a webcam that day. This was a private show, and is not likely to be repeated any time soon. Fear not, loyal reader, for I made good use of the unique opportunity and saved all of the images ( as any good pervert would ).

The Story

While talking to this girl on ICQ, she confided in me that she wanted to explore her submissive side with someone she could trust. Ka-ching! But no, I'm not that sort of person. Actually, I didn't like her hair. However, I didn't have any problems with dominating her online. I found out that I'm actually into this sort of thing, but we can talk about that another time. I started telling her to take photos of herself with her new webcam for me. She fell into line quickly ( no bitchslaps required ) and followed my directions fairly well for a first time sub. I started slowly, seeing how far she would go for me. The shirt and pants came off shortly, quickly followed by her bra with only a minimal amount of cajoling. After some poses in a thong and a g-string, she pranced around buck fucking naked. All because I told her too. Wow.

Now, it was time to get down to the fun stuff. Take a seat honey. Spread 'em. Good girl. This girl was so easy to work with. Any time she wanted to resist, I just told her that I would stop talking to her if she didn't do as I said. Ka-ching. This submissive thing is damn cool. I got her in various poses over the next little while. Ever wanted to see a girl lick her own nipple? So did I. Wanna know what she'll look like right before you do her up the poops? Now you know. I started getting bored with plain poses at this point, so I told her to start playing with herself.

Slut: &quotI can't do that now"
Me: &quotAnd why not?"
Slut: &quotBecause it'll push me over the edge"
Me: &quotI don't see a problem with that. Do it."

And of course, she did. Gee, that finger looks lonely. Use two. What? You've never used more than two before? Well, now's the time to start with a third.

At this point, she would have agreed to anything ( and did ). I convinced her that my real name is Stile, and that I want her to hold up a sign that says &quotStile Sux" on it. Silly girl. She did it. Those photos now reside in the second Stile Sux archive and she still doesnt know what Stile Sux means or what Stileproject is.

Me: &quotGee, if you could get three fingers in there, how much more can you do?"
Slut: &quotThat's it. I can't fit anymore"
Me: &quotI don't believe that. Do your whole hand"
Slut: &quotI can't! I'll rip"
Me: &quotDo it."

I have to give her credit. With a lot of pushing and shoving, some crying, a lot of moaning, and a few orgasms, she actually did it. She fisted herself because I told her to without ever having met me in real life.

I ended it at this point. The poor girl had worn herself out so that she could barely stay conscious, let alone talk. She doesnt know these photos are up here, and probably never will, so enjoy this glimpse into the life of a slutty cam whore.

- Zippy :: Back to PenIsMightier ::

Re:No thanks.

[afabbro]

I would never go with them because of the DRM'd player,

But you would go with Apple's DRM'd player. Brilliant.

Try allofmp3.com

[agraupe]

1) It's semi-legal

2) You can use paypal to ensure your CC number doesn't go to the Russian mafiya.

3) I'm still using the 10 dollars I paid about 6 months ago, and I download a lot of music.

Re:Try allofmp3.com

[jschottm]

1) It's semi-legal

It's dubiously legal at best inside Russia, and is not legal outside of it.

3) I'm still using the 10 dollars I paid about 6 months ago, and I download a lot of music.

That's great. In the mean time, you're supporting a group of "Russian mafiya" while the people who worked hard to create the "lot" of music that you enjoy get essentially nothing. I bet they'll keep making that music that you enjoy for free... Hey, the chop shop in the bad part of town will sell you parts at 1/10 of the cost of those suckers at $CAR_PARTS_SHOP. Let's all go support the criminals.

So, how do you make [or intend to make] your living? Does it depend on the concept of intellectual property at all?

Re:Let's compare, shall we?

[fimbulvetr]

For the people reading this, let me first point out the parents obvious bias. Such as, notice there are no ipod -s? How about napster +s? Nope, none. Anyway, let me help the browsers distinguish between opinions and facts:

+Huge install base
Huge compared to what? My ass?

+Awesome selection of music - could be better, but it absolutely blows away anything shy of Amazon, and terrestrial stores can't hold a candle to it.
Sounds like an opinion to me. Obviously, no store outside of those two will ever match his itune fantasy world.

+Widely considered the best portable player made
Another opinion.

+DRM is fairly transparent and can easily be legally circumvented, and even more easily, well... *cough*
Legally? Really? I doubt it. Besides, read a bit up about the guy who tried to get his songs from itunes after he lost them. They probably won't redownload your songs you've already paid for! In short, a "modified truth" if you will.

-Let's face it: iTMS is a fantastic idea, but about as much of a cludgy resource whore as a dolled-up media player can be
It's kludge, or kluge:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=kluge
Nonetheless, I see another opinion poking through here.

Napster:

+Has the Napster name, which may mean something to someone that's been living in a cave for the past 4 years, but probably not Another opinion.

-Absolutely craptastic selection of music
I doubt the parent has even looked at the selection. Surely he's not trying to decided which type of music you like for you?

-WMA files aren't any more widely supported by the portable market than AAC, who are they trying to kid? Sure, more player models support WMA, but take away the ones that aren't even remotely competetive with the iPod and the iPod mini, and all you're really left with is the iRiver HP-120 and the Creative Zen Micro. FUD. Opinion. Shop around, the Creative and iRiver can be good products.

-Their DRM scheme is geared more towards music rental than music purchase.
He might be right on this one, depends on how long you're looking to keep your music.

So... what "advantages" are Napster touting, again?
Well, if you got off your fantasy world and objectively considered things, you might find them. However, like most appleboys, there's no help for you, the disease has already metastasized .

WMA Sounds Awful

[fairyliquidizer]

So hmmm let me see I can buy beautiful clear uncompressed CDDA without DRM or I can buy sweet sounding AAC (not bad for single tracks) or I can rent fart in a bath lo fi sounding WMA? Which will I choose? Well clearly as I am getting old WMA will remind me of the old days of Long Wave Radio. No thanks Microshaft. Napster is actually quite a nice application. However WMA sucks and the UK prices are a rip off!

moderator status is great isn't it?

[microcars]

you can just go mark everything
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and your work is done for the day!

Get off the Apple GayBoat

[Anonymous Coward]

Both of these deals suck as far as digital rights go, it's just that slashdot is so comfy on steve job's dick they actually think iTunes isn't a rip off. Overcome your bias, it's just a matter of how you get fucked with either of these companies.