Do not sign up for Napster. Their ad in the Super Bowl is very misleading. Sure, you can download millions of songs for $15/month, but once you cancel your subscription you cannot play your songs anymore. You MUST maintain your subscription to continue listening to your songs.

This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of - we have to "rent" music now? The music industry has some weird notion that because it's the internet, they can treat music differently. Wrong. Once I buy a CD, I don't want to continue paying for it on a monthly basis just to listen to it.

Don't use Napster. This is just another step that the business status quo is attempting to push onto our society to stifle innovation.

Posted by roy on February 7, 2005 at 12:47 PM in Ramblings | 8 Comments

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Comment posted on February 10th, 2005 at 03:14 PM
Can you burn the songs to a CD and then Rip them back?
Comment posted on February 9th, 2005 at 05:37 PM
So Napster is not good. Any advice on what is? I've never downloaded any music before so I'm in the dark about where to look.
Comment posted on February 8th, 2005 at 09:04 AM
it sucks
Comment posted on February 8th, 2005 at 03:55 AM
oh.. that's really a dumb idea from napster. thanks for telling us. haven't watched superbowl eh.
Comment posted on February 8th, 2005 at 02:07 AM
That's really dumb.
Comment posted on February 7th, 2005 at 07:40 PM
We have a thing on campus called cdigix. They provide the same service like napster, where you pay to rent, but it's only 3 dollars a month compared to 15. I still don't like the idea, but its pretty popular here, since the servers are right on campus and the downloads take only a few seconds. If I could figure out a way to crack the DRM on it, i'd pay for a month.

You COULD always capture audio as it goes to your soundcard. There are programs that basically capture the analog audio stream and output it to an mp3 file. Of course you lose quality that way. I haven't tried it myself to test the quality, but I'd think it wouldn't be that good.
Comment posted on February 7th, 2005 at 07:19 PM
I agree.
Comment posted on February 7th, 2005 at 03:07 PM
I'm wondering where they came up with the $10K number for the iPod. I have 857 songs on my play list, and that's too much as it is...

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