KPFA Radio Interviews ZeroPaid’s Jared Moya and Drew Wilson
Every once in a while, we are able to get an interview with someone who also knows a thing or two about file-sharing. Today, interestingly enough, the tables were turned and California’s radio station, KPFA 94.1 FM, interviewed us. The interview is currently available as in MP3 podcast format.
Recently, we wrote about the [...]
10th Anniversary of Napster This Month
Some may not know it, but June is an interesting month for file-sharer’s. This year, June marks a major milestone for file-sharers. It was June, 1999 when Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker released the first version of Napster – an application that has since changed the face of entertainment, the internet and copyright [...]
Napster Offers Unlimited Streaming, 5 Downloads for $5p/mo
Tries to stay relevant with service that delivers music for the same price as iTune bundled with on-demand music streaming.
Napster, the proverbial godfather of music downloads, and whom, incidentally, is nearing its 10th anniversary, is trying to reinvent itself once again by bundling a service that combines streaming with MP3s.
For $5 p/mo (available to US [...]
Best Buy to Acquire Napster 2.0 for $121 Million
The news may have been missed by some, but there is word that Napster could very likely be sold to Best Buy for $121 Million.
Napster has had quite a run with the media and Napster 2.0 seemed to make the headlines on a fairly regular basis with it’s supposedly revolutionary business model of a subscription [...]
Napster 2.0 Could Be Put on the Auction Block
You’d think that with the passage of the Higher Education Act, which forces colleges and universities in the United States to block P2P and promote authorized music stores, that companies like Napster would have it made – obviously, that’s not the case.
It is starting to look like Napster may once again become a symbol in [...]
Penn St. drops Napster for Ruckus music
Penn State’s groundbreaking arrangement with Napster is over.
The university will turn to Ruckus Network Inc. this fall to allow all enrolled students at its 24 campuses to legally listen to the nearly 3 million songs available through the service. Penn State’s ties to Napster will be severed in May.
The Napster partnership was the first of [...]
Circuit City partners up with Napster to create ‘Circuit City + Napster’
The new digital music subscription service will offer 99-cent song download purchases in addition to Napster’s unlimited content streaming service.
Starting April 29, 2007, consumers can sign up for Circuit City + Napster at www.circuitcity.com/napster and gain unlimited access to millions of songs on their PCs and portable digital music players for $14.95 per month. [...]
EMI and Bertelsmann settle Napster lawsuit
EMI on Monday agreed to settle a lawsuit against Bertelsmann related to the German media group’s support for Napster, the online file-sharing service that spurred a piracy epidemic that is still straining the music industry.
Eric Nicoli, EMI’s chief executive, said he was "pleased" by the settlement but declined to [...]
Subway Napster for the London Tube: undersound
Undersound is a new project to distribute music around the London Underground trains. Users can upload songs from their collections to centralized distribution points, and download tracks left by other users. The system keeps tack of which tracks came from what station –this is a public-transit version of the “Traffic Napster” that appears in my [...]
Closed systems leave song buyers out in the cold
The top consumer complaint at online music service
Napster: Songs purchased at Napster won’t play on Apple’s iPod.
It’s not Napster’s fault. Apple’s (AAPL) hugely successful iPod business is built on a closed system. You shop at iTunes Music Store for digital songs and use iTunes software to transfer them effortlessly to the iPod.
The system works great [...]
