Napster AT&T tunes: $2.00 each
p2pnet news | Music:- One of the main reasons adherents of the corporate music industry survive despite lousy product, bad management and supreme contempt for the people and keep them alive, scornfully called ‘consumers,’ is: investors seem to have bottomless wallets.
When Roxio bought Napster it expected to zoom to instant financial success because of the huge following the first serious P2P application had developed.
That was several years ago and the promise has never come anywhere near being fulfilled.
Nonetheless, every time it comes up with a new survival scheme, the mainstream press hype it like it was the second coming, parroting company puff pieces as though they equal serious reporting.
But as a p2pnet reader posted to the story that the people behind the application had decided to drop the client download in favour of a web-based platform, “napster crapster. enuff sed”.
And that about sums up.
However, its worthiness, or complete lack of it, notwithstanding, on the face of it, Napster’s survival now seems assured owing to the fact AT&T is now touting it.
But is it?
AT&T wireless subscribers are being told they can tap the ’service’ —– for a price, and a hefty one it is.
They’ll be able to download a paltry five tracks a month with the so-called Napster Mobile Five-Track Pack option for a massive $1.50 per song, says InfoSyncWorld.
And is that doesn’t suit them, they can allow themselves to be ripped off at the rate of $2 per song, a la carte.
Don’t bother to stay tuned.
Also See:
drop the client download – Napster abandons client download, October 17, 2007
InfoSyncWorld – AT&T customers will get access to Napster Mobile’s massive, yet expensive music catalog in mid-November, October 22, 2007
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October 22nd, 2007 at 8:37 am
It’ll be fun watching this fail. And it will fail bigtime. $2 a song?! What are they thinking?! Itunes will annihilate this. I still won’t buy from either. I found better things to do.
October 22nd, 2007 at 10:13 am
Because the entertainement industry is controling the media so they can scam the investors. You have to be stupid to believe the main stream media and invest in any online RIAA/MPAA endorsed company. But clearly the investors will learn eventually. Meanwhile we can have a good laught:
Crapster? whouhahahahahahahahaha! Go for it suckers!
October 22nd, 2007 at 10:13 am
you people are morons.
napster is an excellent value prop regardless of this initial mispricing by ATT
October 22nd, 2007 at 10:47 am
“you people are morons.
napster is an excellent value prop regardless of this initial mispricing by ATT”
That just HAS to be sarcastic and tongue in cheek. I can’t believe anyone could be that obvious a shill.
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:16 pm
Man what a ripoff!
Of course if it was .50 cents I couldn’t afford it.
I’m an artist and I’m drowning in debt.
CAN ANYONE HELP?
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