The Napster song-swapping service has undergone a transformation from hotbed for piracy to legitimate peer-to-peer service in a large pack of formidable competitors. Napster 2.0, to be officially launched October 29th by Roxio, will provide legal dollar-per-song access to a catalogue of 500,000 titles. However, the new version of the once rebellious and free P2P service represents a marked change from the original and has even been the subject of a scornful parody.
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Napster Lives Again – In Name Only
Posted by: Jay Lyman October 9, 2003 01:59 PMThe Napster song-swapping service has undergone a transformation from hotbed for piracy to legitimate peer-to-peer service in a large pack of formidable competitors. Napster 2.0, to be officially launched October 29th by Roxio, will provide legal dollar-per-song access to a catalogue of 500,000 titles. However, the new version of the once rebellious and free P2P service represents a marked change from the original and has even been the subject of a scornful parody.