Comments on: Napster and the Three Musketeers

By: Brian Jones (RW)

Brian Jones (RW) — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:21:21 +0000

^^ But it shifts the focus from caring and sharing to capitalistic profiteering. An ugly business. Better if they did a deal whereby they could still offer free music but make it ad funded. That’s better than nothing. I sided with them originally but no more. Not that I could ever use their app. For some reason it would never work for me, and I had to wait for Audiogalaxy (RIP).

^ Jon u really are a scamp aren’t u? Don’t copyright issues become ridiculous in the extreme? Love your work tho. Keep it up
(it’s me reader’s write)

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:18:00 +0000

@ Guilty as charged!

You’ll get my bill by snailmail

Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:16:21 +0000

Hey, at least these guys are taking some initiative. Napster’s board is apparently packed with Gorog cronies or people who know nothing about the business. They just gave management 950,000 additional shares of the suffering shareholders’ stock in exchange for the outstanding performance they did over the last year. If I were a Napster shareholder I would be raising hell and firing real bullets.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:04:27 +0000

Guilty as charged! I thought someone was telling me off but a quote! All my life I’ve been waiting for a quote. Thanks I’m fattered, er flattered. No charge for copyright, and keep the change Jon

By: Andrew Wise

Andrew Wise — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:51:27 +0000

Why don’t the Napster folks focus on building their business around other already popular subscription-based offerings. The cable industry manages to bilk you for $100 a month, even though you only watch 20% or less of your total channels. Sirius gets you to pay for radio that you get for free in your car –

If Napster worked on developing better hardware relationships they could really build a killer product. Imagine if Napster created a head-unit for cars, you could listen to any of the music from their catalog on-demand, right from your car. Then, when you want to load up your mp3 player, you simply “star” each song you hear on the radio, and it automatically downloads to your napster player. That’s a pretty cool value I wouldn’t mind paying for, but right now what they are doing is trying to get you to pay for something that you can already get for free, in a better format, higher quality, and from a larger selection — it’s amazing they have any subscribers at all..