p2pnet - rss feed: The answer to Napster’s problems?
p2pnet news | Music:- Grooveshark vp of business development Andrew Wise figures he has at least part of the answer to Crapster’s problems.
In a Reader’s Write to the p2pnet story on how Three Musketeers are proposing they join the Napster board to help it out of its troubles, “Why don’t the Napster folks focus on building their business around other already popular subscription-based offerings,” Wise wonders.
Almost exactly one year ago Grooveshark, regular readers will recall, ran a ‘one picture is worth a thousand words’ promo via a Flickr-based Public Service project built around a statement DRM is absurd.
It’s taken the Napster boss Chris Gorog a few years to understand that so, having at last reached that conclusion, he is now trying to milk it on the back of Apple’s iTunes.
Meanwhile, “The cable industry manages to bilk you for $100 a month, even though you only watch 20% or less of your total channels,” says Wise in his p2pnet comment post, going on >>>
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.
Has Napster got subscribers?
Isn’t that part of the trouble? 
Hey, Andrew, if Napster picks this up, will you bill them for the idea and if you do, will p2pnet get a percentage for airing it?
OK. I won’t hold my breath 
[Grooveshark bills itself as an online music community which, “rewards you for sharing, reviewing, and discovering new music”.]
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join the Napster board - Napster and the Three Musketeers, May 22, 2008
DRM is absurd - ‘DRM is absurd’, May 31, 2007
trying to milk it -Napster looks to Apple for salvation, May 20, 2008
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