Music industry watch
Napster is back. Yawn.
It's back as a castrated music download service. Unlimited streaming music for $10/month and $.99 track downloads. DRM. Yawn.
Original Napster founder Shawn Fanning said:
"I've used Napster 2.0, and it's really great," Fanning said. "It has community features and tools for discovering new music that were important parts of the original Napster experience."
Yeah, whatever. Doesn't sound like something Shawn, the orignal rebel, would say.
PressPlay, Rhapsody, iTunes, BuyMusic, MusicMatch, EMusic, Napster: all crap, all non compatible, all worthless. Some suck more than others, but all in all they are just a disservice to the public.
Posted by Mayhem at October 9, 2003 01:16 PM
You've got tons of great analysis of what's going on re: electronic music, mp3s and all that. Glad I stumbled onto your weblog. I wrote something about the emusic thing earlier today: http://www.squub.com/100920031.htm
Sucks ass that this is happening.
