p2pnet news | Music:- Can you see iPodders switching to, wait for it, Napster?

The corporate music industry killed it if off years ago and virtually ever since, a wan and pale look-alike has been stumbling from one failed effort to another, trying to capitalize on the name of the P2P application which started the file sharing epidemic.

Now Napster boss Chris Gorog is looking to Apple to pull its chestnuts out of the fire.

Seriously.

Today Napster starts peddling MP3s in a move it, “hopes will lure iPod users and turn around Napster’s sliding fortunes,” says the Associated Press, going on, “The company is the latest to make the switch to the unrestricted file format, which makes it music tracks compatible with virtually any music player or other device.”

“It’s great that we have finally gotten here,” the story has Napster boss Chris Gorog saying.

“It is really the beginning of a level playing field, which I think is essential for Napster, but also for the health of the digital music business in general.”

No! Really! He said that!

Napster MP3s will be a dollar a pop with albums costing ten bucks.

Good luck with that.

. .Stumble It!

Associated Press - Napster rolls out all-MP3 download store, May 19, 2008

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