Napster will never be able to pay that amount of money without making significant changes to its service.
As it stands now, I often get transfer errors and partial song downloads. I will not pay money with no guarantee of a) getting the song I want, b) getting a high quality rip or c) getting the full song without joe123 shutting down.
All they would be selling is the opportunity to find a song you are looking for. Not the actual aquisition of the song. That is not a strong product.
They need to make it reliable before they can charge people for the service. Otherwise, the user base will drop significantly and the revenue estimates they gave are garbage.
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Napster will never be able to pay that amount of money without making significant changes to its service.
As it stands now, I often get transfer errors and partial song downloads. I will not pay money with no guarantee of a) getting the song I want, b) getting a high quality rip or c) getting the full song without joe123 shutting down.
All they would be selling is the opportunity to find a song you are looking for. Not the actual aquisition of the song. That is not a strong product.
They need to make it reliable before they can charge people for the service. Otherwise, the user base will drop significantly and the revenue estimates they gave are garbage.