whats happening to napster?

[papizm123]

anyway yea whats happening to napster? i went to there site the other day and i saw that it said "under construction" ..... any1 know anything?

[Wolfie]

Don't know, and really don't care.

[collideous]

Supposedly, it's rising from the grave (http://money.cnn.com/2003/02/19/pf/investing/roxio/index.htm).

[method77]

It's "under construction" for months now.

[Sockfulloflove]

i believe the company that bought it, Roxio, is planning to make it into a pay fee p2p service. something like that.

[d-koolest]

Roxio bought it. A pay service from them might be something to look at, as it would probably be bundled with cd burning software (roxio makes cd burning software as its main business).

[g-smooth2k]

its been under construction for months and roxio bought the Napster.com website. it is probably going to be a Fee/ Pay based p2p sharing file sharing subscription service.
Forget Napster and just find another service to use. If it comes back up it won't be ass popular. It cannot beat KaZaA cause KaZaA has foughly 5 million users and is going to hit 200 million downloads.



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[Theinfamousone]

I think Roxio is going to have a tuff time being that they are going to have to buy their music from the RIAA, and since there is pressplay or whatever rivaling them, they probably don't want Roxio to do very well, so they are going to charge a lot for the rights.

If the RIAA was smart, they would make a really AWESOME P2P app and just use ads and spyware and bundled crap to make money off of it. Then Random Nut or whoever could reverse engineer it and cut out all of the garbage for those of us who don't want it, and everyone would be happy. They might not be making as much money as they did in the "you have to pay $17 for a CD" days, but they will be doing a lot better then they are now.

Actually, the fact that you can try out music and stuff which makes you want to buy CDs that you wouldn't otherwise have known about might even improve their sales. In short, Roxio doesn't have a prayer of competeing with record labels and the RIAA are complete fools.

[matt merch]

and so another company thinks it can make money on the napster name napster was grounbreaking but its history now

[Monyak]

While I and most of us have only uttermost respect for NAPSTER and its contribution, I truly doubt that Napster will ever be able to repeat its success.

I await the day when we can have something so divine and centralized as Napster with mass usage.

I think the only thing that ROXIO got out of purchasing Napster is a lot press saying ROXIO BOUGHT NAPSTER. Otherwise, why isnt the domain being used and for months has been under contruction?

How fucking hard is it to do something with the site until they meet their objective whatever that may be?

So until further notice: UNDER CONSTRUCTION

[TipYourBartender]

I think you are all underestimating what this could be. Not because of Napster, but because of Roxio. This is a company that is smart and knows what its users want to see in a program. Not to mention roxio makes burner software, so you should expect everything to be burnable.

Will it be better than FastTrack/Gnutella/Ares? No, because it will cost money.
Will it be better, in pricing and GUI, than Rhapsody/Musicnet/Pressplay? I'd be willing to put money on it.
Will it be successful? Depends on what you -and Roxio - mean by successful.

[endersgame21]

Roxio does make good software so I expect napster will be no exception. I will use it if it becomes popular and reliable. I think this might of prevailed if it weren't for es5 coming out.