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Napster's New Pitch: Five DRM-Free Songs, Unlimited Streaming, $5 A Month

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ripfire
05/18/09

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Wait. Is this article is sent from the future?

LOS ANGELES - MAY 19, 2009 - Napster, the pioneer of digital music, today unveiled its latest music offering

Today is the 18th, isn't it? *checks calendar*
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Nick
05/18/09

@ripfire: Giz is in the loop. they get the stuff early.
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MrBlahBlah
05/18/09

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I think this is pretty good. It is like buying 5 songs at the lowest price possible, plus you get a pandora, with the ability to actually choose what you want to hear. If you are going to buy 5 songs a month anyways, there is no downside to this offer. How this is "douchy", as some have claimed, I do not understand
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cbandes
05/18/09

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I don't get it - there's already tons and tons of free radio - lala, pandora, last.fm... Why is this one worth paying for?
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triggerx
05/18/09

@cbandes: Well, the 5 "free" songs makes it a wash (and cheaper than iTunes), but hopefully unlike the free streaming services, maybe you can actually rewind, click next infinitely, and pick the songs you want to hear next?
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Kaiser-Machead
05/18/09

@triggerx: If you're paying a subscription price, it better allow you to rewind and fast forward at your leisure. If it doesn't, it's 100% worthless.
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xenoastro
05/18/09

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somehow i think there is a 100 paged PDF somewhere with the unreadable fine print :?

and what consequence will it have, for your songs, when this "cheap" service is gone in a year or two ?
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kleptoman
05/18/09

@xenoastro: Just strip the DRM off and you get way more than 5 songs a month....sweet! I recommend DRM converter for this.
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dsh
05/18/09

@kleptoman: Where can you buy "way more than 5 songs a month" for $5?

I mean, sure, if you manage to find some of iTunes' mythical $.69 tracks you could get... ya know... 6 songs instead of 5.

A buck a song is the industry standard, and these songs are DRM free.
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kleptoman
05/18/09

@dsh: Please to be reading the first part of the sentence: "strip off the DRM". Napster has unlimited downloads but they are DRMed .wma files....Strip that off and you get way more than 5 songs for $5
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Kaiser-Machead
05/18/09

@kleptoman: I'm sure he meant a legitimate alternative. Finding (and most likely purchasing) DRM-stripping software is not quite the same.
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