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Josh Avedisian
In response to the outbreak of new pay to play music programs that came out near the end of 2003, Supportp2p wanted to know which of them were successful and which were flops. So we did a little research and this is what we found. I opened my Napster 2.0 Client at 8:00 PM and did a search for pop music (which we are guessing is the most popular music on Napster) We got over 200 users from the search results. (Which isn’t bad since when we did it with Napster 2.0 was in beta, we got 40 results.) So Napster is moving forward user-wise.
We did a search to see how broad Napster’s collection of music is. First we searched for popular artists such as Britney Spears and we found that it had all her albums. Too bad they were only selling her new album “In the Zone” for $9.95. In order to get the other albums, you have to buy all the songs. That would cost close to $15.00! So we did a search on an artist that is not as popular as Britney called 12 stones. That search did not provide any correct search results, so we decided to do one more search for “Slipknot” and all we got was songs from their album “Iowa”. The Bad part about this is that you can’t buy the CD itself for 9.95. So if you wanted the full album you would have to pay close to $15.00.
Ok so Napster doesn’t contain much music. Maybe they have a good help service if you find yourself in some trouble. We did a test and said that we bought the wrong album and that Napster did not tell us which album it was. They were pretty quick on there reponse (2 days). They were very nice about it and all they requested was that we send them the recent purchases list. We did and they refunded our money. So we give them a “A+” on there service. But does service matter if you have no songs to choose from to download? Thats your call.
Napster has all the cool features and cool specs to attract people’s attention. But as you see in our test, Napster 2.0 does not stack up to what you can get from P2P. And with the recent ruling that stated it’s unconstitutional to sue p2p users for file trading, what are Napster and other pay-sites for?
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