Napster subscribers decline
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Napster Inc.  on Wednesday  provided a disappointing outlook for its online music service  and said its subscriber base had fallen 7 percent as it focused  on promoting a new free Web site.
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Napster announced that its portable music subscription service &quot;Napster To Go&quot; is available for users of the new AT&amp;T Wireless based Audiovox SMT5600 Smartphone.
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Napster developer Shawn Fanning is back with a new file-sharing program -- but this time it&#39;s legit. Without revealing all the details of his new venture, Snocap, Inc.
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The force behind one-time music industry nemesis Napster has changed his tune by becoming a guardian of copyrighted songs.
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The tune seems to be changing ever so slowly at some record labels when it comes to DRM. Both out of consumer demand and to some extent necessity, some have begun to offer digital downloads in the unprotected MP3 format.
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Apple Computer Inc's  iTunes remains the leader in paid digital music downloads, but the number of paying customers for this sector  overall has decreased since April, research firm NPD said Tuesday.
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By ANNA FIORENTINO Staff Writer  Forget the Napster disaster. iTunes didn't stand a chance.  At least with those looking for free music online.  Just when it seemed the World Wide Web had succumbed to $1.99 download deals, at least one site prevailed.
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Whether you like Napster To Go, the online store's new music subscription service, depends on whether you think of it as all-you-can-eat or all-you-can-pay.
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Currently both Napster and RealNetworks offer music services with a subscription option where users who subscribe get to listen to all the music they want for a flat fee of around US$9.95 a month.
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A note posted on Suprnova.org, which facilitated file sharing among users of the BitTorrent program, says the site is &quot;closing down for good.
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The majority of consumers have not yet  accepted the subscription model to rent rather than buy music  but this is likely to change over the next year, according to  the head of the online service Napster Inc..
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With a 15 percent jump in revenue from subscriptions, online music retailer Napster said it spent less and lost much less in its third quarter than a year earlier.
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In an effort to lure users away from iTunes, which dominates online music sales in the United Kingdom, Napster UK is giving away a free MP3 player to all customers who sign up for three months of service. The player, worth about $55 USD, is made by SanDisk and holds 512MB of songs.
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Napster, the subscription music-download service, is looking for a buyer. The company -- which got its start as a free music-download, file-sharing site -- said Sept. 18 that it has hired UBS Investment Bank to find a major strategic partner or to be acquired completely.
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Napster founder Shawn Fanning has returned to the online downloading arena with the approval of some significant members of the music industry.
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'We hear the kids like these MP3 things' Napster will once again deal in the scourge that are MP3s now that the major record labels have decided that MP3s are not evil but rather their future.â¦
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For many of us, it seems like a long time since the battle of the bands was waged on the front pages of the media. It started with Napster, an illegal file sharing service that made it possible