The New Napster
Wow, looks like things are getting interesting over at Napster. After being nearly sued out of existance a few years ago, they re-launched as a totally legal all you can download subscription service. You can keep the downloads as long as you keep on paying the monthly subscription fee, cancel the subscription and your downloads get locked.
But thats not the interesting part. Just today, Napster started a free, ad-supported streaming service that lets you listen to songs and albums on demand. Thats right, you pick the songs you want to hear and its streamed to you. You get ads with the pop-up player, but I can totally live with that since its free. Wonder how Rhapsody will respond? I’m getting ready to cancel my subscription.