markie
Joined: October 15, 2001 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Napster vanquished.
February 19, 2004 at 03:56 PM UTC
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Despite Vansmack's argument of brand recognition:
Napster losing money, top executives
February 19 - 10:44 ESTÂ Â The San Jose Mercury News reports that Napster is losing both money and top management, including its president, chief financial officer, vice president of programming and head of corporate communications as well a key board member. Roxio also began laying off workers this week at the Napster division, which lost US$15 million in its first two months of operation. In addition, the newspaper said Hewlett-Packard was originally supposed to partner with Napster and install a link to the Napster online music service on its computers. However, that deal fell through, and in January Apple and HP announced a strategic agreement to produce an HP-branded iPod and add an iTunes link to HP desktops and laptops.
From macminute.com
bags
Joined: October 30, 2001 at 06:01 AM UTC
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Re: Napster vanquished.
February 19, 2004 at 04:20 PM UTC
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I have no idea or perspective as to whether this is good, bad or indifferent.
sonickteam2
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Re: Napster vanquished.
February 19, 2004 at 04:22 PM UTC
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the real problem here is, its not free.
mankie
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Re: Napster vanquished.
February 19, 2004 at 04:26 PM UTC
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Aw, you mean you might actually have to go to the music shop to buy your cd's?
Pitty, pitty, pitty….
markie
Joined: October 15, 2001 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: Napster vanquished.
February 19, 2004 at 04:28 PM UTC
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freedom is not free.
If you like itunes store, its probably a good thing. If you, as a consumer, prefer choice it is a bad thing.
markie
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Re: Napster vanquished.
February 19, 2004 at 04:35 PM UTC
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Pitty, pitty, pitty….
i work in one, remember? I was just making a statement. [/QB]
But you dont like your job, right?
How else could you advocate Napster giving away free downloads?
kosmo
Joined: September 23, 1999 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: Napster vanquished.
February 19, 2004 at 04:46 PM UTC
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Originally posted by Bags:
I have no idea or perspective as to whether this is good, bad or indifferent.
it means that users aren't willing to cough up an extra $10 or so to be able to get access to full length song streams verses 30 second samples. napster was treating to create a community where users could share playlists and than pay the .99 per song download is they what they heard. in part in means that itunes is more successful because it doesn't have all the "value-added" features, and it was one of first out of the box to provide hit songs for individual download.
personally i still think .99 a track is to high and avoid itunes, etc like the plaque.
bellenseb
Joined: October 09, 2003 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: Napster vanquished.
February 19, 2004 at 04:49 PM UTC
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sonick,
Sorry if this is common knowledge, but which store do you work in?
bellenseb
Joined: October 09, 2003 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: Napster vanquished.
February 19, 2004 at 04:54 PM UTC
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I've heard good things about R&TT, but I've never been to one. What's the closest one to DC? Any chance of a DC/VA location?
chaz
Joined: December 09, 2002 at 06:01 AM UTC
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Re: Napster vanquished.
February 19, 2004 at 05:55 PM UTC
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
personally i still think .99 a track is to high and avoid itunes, etc like the plaque.
Yeah, I agree that .99 a song is too much, but I don't think $10 per album is too bad, esp. when I feel like making an impulse buy. I just got tired of f***ing with kazaa and the like, getting songs with less than stellar audio quality, having to constantly fix up the id3 tags etc.
markie
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Re: Napster vanquished.
February 19, 2004 at 06:02 PM UTC
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I like to physically own the CD. I think that makes me a dinosaur.
but for people who are not, I think itunes store is pretty cool. It makes a lot of sense. Being able to get individual tracks for 99 cents is great. It is much better than having to hunt down some rare overpriced CD single, or get an album you do not really want.
kosmo
Joined: September 23, 1999 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: Napster vanquished.
February 19, 2004 at 06:48 PM UTC
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i'm with markie on this one… i would never spend $10 to buy impulsevily buy the electronic version of an album. for that much money i want the physical product.
emusic is still best us based mp3 provider. for a $3.33 I can get a 15 track album. the problem is those bastards keep adding great new music and 90 tracks a month only go so far.
if you are willing to dip your toe in the legalities of russian copywrite law, allofmp3 is one way to go. instead of paying per song you pay per megabyte downloaded. and you can get songs in a wide variety of formats and compression levels.
emusic is tied to the per track restriction because songwriters get paid the same regardless of if the track one minute or nine minutes long.
personally, i would like to see a music library scenario. where i can checkout the entire record listen to it for a week and decide whether not i want to keep it. and be given the option to buy the physical product at the end of the loan period.