p2pnet.net News View:- As expected, news of Napster II’s attempt to cash in on Apple’s good fortune is sweeping the Net – at least, the Net as viewed by the mainstream media.

Roxio-that-was, now Napster, yesterday launched a ‘To Go’ music rental service that’s being offered up as a threat to Apple’s iTunes.

It’s nothing of the kind and never will be, of course, but it’s grist for the mills of Apple, which gets all kinds of default PR, and the Big Music cartel as its four members try to convince the world that an online corporate music download business actually exists.

PR Puff Events such as this add a little more substance to the entirely false claim that impressive numbers of punters are willing to spend a dollar or more for each low-fidelity, highly compressed mp3 (which costs practically nothing to make) sold by the cartel through iTunes, principally..

And of course, if Big Music and its adherents can promote a few more sales through the likes of Napster II – on the Go or Standing Still – all to the better.

In the meanwhile, Warner (US), EMI (UK), UMG (France) and Sony BMG (Japan, Germany) continue to try to sue the vast majority of online music lovers who’d never dream of using iTunes, Napster II or anything else, into doing so.

“Keep everyone afraid, and they’ll consume,” as Marilyn Manson says to Michael Moore in ‘Bowling for Columbine’.

JN

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See:-
cash in - ‘Mobile’ Napster challenges Apple, p2pnet, February 4, 2005
try to sue - RIAA nails more people, p2pnet, January 29, 2005

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