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[Great King Bowser]

So I signed up to a 30 day free trial for Napster erm, 30 days ago. Forgot to cancel, so it would appear they've charged me £9.99 for a month. :lol

So what does that £9.99 get me? Will I be able to download tracks and put them on my mp3 player now?

Bah, I'll make sure I remember to cancel at the end of the month.

 

[demon]

Welcome to 1999...........

o, wait....

I laugh at you.

 

[Great King Bowser]

Welcome to 1999...........

o, wait....

I laugh at you.

:lol

I can't even remember why I signed up to this shit, but at least let me get my moneys worth!

 

[BigJonsson]

Napster sold out

Is nothing sacred in this world...

But Napster was the greatest thing since sliced bread when it came out

 

[demon]

Napster sold out

Is nothing sacred in this world...

But Napster was the greatest thing since sliced bread when it came out

A-fuckin-men. It really opened a whole new world of music to me. I didn't even buy CDs until I started using Napster, ironically enough. The RIAA can suck each and every one of my nut hairs.

 

[impirius]

Easy guide to using Napster

1. Travel back in time about 4 years
2. Use Napster to get the music you want without restrictions

 

[Great King Bowser]

Easy guide to using Napster

1. Travel back in time about 4 years
2. Use Napster to get the music you want without restrictions

Pfft. I was using Napster back then, but I figured I'd try this new service for the 30 day trial. Downloaded two tracks and forgot about it. Consider me Napster0wned.

 

[warhead]

Can we give this man a Owned by Napster title?

 

[Jeffahn]

Caught napping.

 

[jenov4]

Wait a minute, people actually pay to use Napster.. oh the irony.

 

[Great King Bowser]

Wait a minute, people actually pay to use Napster.. oh the irony.

It was an accident! *cries*

And yeah, I usually use bit torrent for albums and shit, but in a moment of insanity I decided to trial napster, then I got 0wned.

 

[pestul]

Listen to over 750,000 tracks online and offline
Listen online at home or at work to an unlimited amount of tracks on-demand from the Napster music catalog. You can also collect as many tracks as you want on the hard drives of up to 3 PC computers to listen offline and save bandwidth while you surf the Web. Enjoy these tracks as long as you are a Napster subscriber. If you have a laptop, you can take these tracks wherever you go.

Sounds like you should have full access.. I dunno.

 

[Jim Bowie]

A-fuckin-men. It really opened a whole new world of music to me. I didn't even buy CDs until I started using Napster, ironically enough. The RIAA can suck each and every one of my nut hairs.

Exactly. The backwards-thinking RIAA can't seem to realize this. Napster was meant to be used, IMO, as a trial service. You download a bunch of their music, and if you like it, you go out and support the band. Whether it's a cd, a t-shirt, a poster, or seeing them live in concert, you go out and help the band earn a living. And this is a feasible idea- look at The Ataris. The Ataris released their first few albums on mp3.com and Napster, free of charge- now they're huge.

 

[snaildog]

Exactly. The backwards-thinking RIAA can't seem to realize this. Napster was meant to be used, IMO, as a trial service. You download a bunch of their music, and if you like it, you go out and support the band. Whether it's a cd, a t-shirt, a poster, or seeing them live in concert, you go out and help the band earn a living. And this is a feasible idea- look at The Ataris. The Ataris released their first few albums on mp3.com and Napster, free of charge- now they're huge.

It just didn't work like that though. Most people I knew just used it to get all their music with and stopped buying CDs.

 

[StrikerObi]

To actually answer your question, I believe that subscriptions to Napster only let you stream music, not download it. Downloaing is a pay-per-song thing.

 

[Phoenix]

Exactly. The backwards-thinking RIAA can't seem to realize this. Napster was meant to be used, IMO, as a trial service. You download a bunch of their music, and if you like it, you go out and support the band. Whether it's a cd, a t-shirt, a poster, or seeing them live in concert, you go out and help the band earn a living. And this is a feasible idea- look at The Ataris. The Ataris released their first few albums on mp3.com and Napster, free of charge- now they're huge.

That's great, but that's not really what happened. There were scores of people who were downloading ALL of their music this way. If people really just want a music trial service I'm sure Microsoft's DRM formats support that - but they won't use it because people would just use the audio out cables in thier machines to capture the music on some other device/application.

I like the idea of giving some 'undesirable to keep' reallyt low bitrate versions of songs for the trial crowd.