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Napster Being Shut Down

Posted by Soulskill on from the seth-green-unavailable-for-comment dept.

helix2301 writes "Napster was one of the earliest and most popular P2P music-sharing services. After a long legal battle that saw Napster slowly gutted in the face of infringement lawsuits, it was reinvented as a legitimate music download service. The resurrected Napster is now being shut down. Rhapsody has completed its purchase of Napster and will be absorbing its subscribers and assets."

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  1. No need to be illegal any more by sandytaru · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm happy with my free podcasts. Over a gigabyte of fresh, free music weekly, and the artists putting out the podcasts/radio shows encourageyou to download them. ("Put it in your playlist and listen to it nonstop for the rest of the week" Above& Beyond chimed in a few weeks ago during "Trance Around the World.")

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  2. Re:Without Napster we'd still be buying all CD's by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You don't seem to understand the economics of dealing weed. I used to make several hundred dollars per day just dealing to friends; selling records would have been a pain in the ass and cut into my profit margin.

  3. Re:Without Napster we'd still be buying all CD's by Myopic · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Wow, really? I buy CDs for one, two, or sometimes three dollars used. My favorite site is Half, but there are many others. Consider using them -- it really sounds like you are still purposely repeating behavior which results in you getting screwed. I can only imagine that you do that in order to preserve your plausible claim to the right to complain, but if you ever feel like actually solving the problem of overpriced music, you can do that easily.

  4. Re:Without Napster we'd still be buying all CD's by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If only that guy ripped and uploaded those rarities instead of worshiping their decaying physical form they wouldn't be rarities. Or would the music suck if everyone knew about it?