Consumerist
riaa
Posts Tagged “
Napster
”
riaa
drm
Napster Drops DRM, Will (Finally) Sell MP3s
Napster, once a file-sharing service that famously drug the RIAA kicking and litigating into the digital music era, will finally drop DRM and start selling mp3s, says Ars Technica. More »
cancel the account
Canceling Napster Takes 30 Minutes On The Phone
Eliot Van Buskirk over at Wired found that he was no longer in need of his Rhapsody, Napster and Yahoo! Music subscriptions now that the RIAA is starting to warm up to the idea of DRM-free music. More »
cellphones
AT&T: Napster On Your Phone For $1.99 Per Track?
Here's some news for those of you out there who have so much money you literally can not think of anything else to do with it: AT&T has announced a partnership with Napster in which you can download songs to your phone for "only" $1.99 a track or 5 for $7.49. More »
worst company in america
How The Recording Industry Killed Itself
Rolling Stone has published the first in a two part series that details the method the recording industry used to kill itself.In the fall of 2003, the RIAA filed its first copyright-infringement lawsuits against file sharers. They've since sued more than 20,000 music fans. The RIAA maintains that the lawsuits are meant to spread the word that unauthorized downloading can have consequences. "It isn't being done on a punitive basis," says RIAA CEO Mitch Bainwol. But file-sharing isn't going away — there was a 4.4 percent increase in the number of peer-to-peer users in 2006, with about a billion tracks downloaded illegally per month, according to research group BigChampagne.More »
napster
