Napster Creator Unveils Online Music Technology
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Shawn Fanning, once reviled by record labels as the creator of renegade song-swap service Napster, on Thursday launched a new service designed to turn the threat of still
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Talk about changing your tune: Shawn Fanning, whose Napster software made it possible for music lovers to get songs over the Internet without paying for them, is going legit.
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Sony launches music players with MP3 support CNET News.com
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Few in the tech world need an introduction to Napster&#39;s founder, the college dropout whose revolutionary file-swapping technology shook the foundations of the $11 billion record industry.
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Cell phones will soon be the biggest destination for music downloads, Napster says.
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At least one online music service without digital rights management restrictions is launching.
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Napster launched a portable version of its digital music service in the U.S. and the U.K. on Thursday, hoping to tempt users with an "all-you-can-eat" monthly subscription model. Called Napster To Go, the company will charge users $14.95 in the U.S. and Â£14.95 ($29) in the U.K. per month, letting them download an unlimited number of songs onto compatible MP3 players as well as their PCs. Napster users can fill and refill compatible MP3 players with their choice of tracks, but must plug, or dock, the device into their PC at least once every 30 days into order for Napster to verify they are still paying customers. If a user stops paying their monthly subscription fee, the music will no longer play on the device. As with Apple's iTunes, Napster also offers users the option of buying individual tracks for $0.99 in the U.S. and Â£0.79 in the U.K. Napster is the first subscription music service to take advantage of new copy-protection software from Microsoft that allows users to listen to digital music over devices as well as on their PCs.ADVERTISEMENTWhite paper: Solutions to Address IT Control RequirementsLearn how BMC Software Solutions address requirements such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 in this 20 page whitepaper!
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Microsoft earlier this year developed a new copyright protection plan that allows for the transfer of subscription songs to portable players. For &#36;5 more a month, consumers can transfer Napster's entire catalog to their device - and listen as often as they'd like - as long as they subscribe.
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Shawn Fanning, founder of Napster, worldâs first file trading peer-to-peer network, is back in full force to legalize music swapping with his new venture.
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In yet more file sharing news, NME is reporting that Napster founder Shawn Fanning is planning another legal music download service that will reportedly have an almost limitless amount of tracks.
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The major record labels, which refused initially to deal with the emerging online song file-sharing technologies, have turned over a new leaf. Shawn Fanning, who invented the original Napster in a dorm room in 1998, Thursday announced his new firm, Snocap, which offers record companies and independent artists a vehicle to make money from their music traded on so-called peer-to-peer  services.
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Napster Inc, one of the largest  digital music retailers, said on Monday it would start selling  downloads in the MP3 format from the second quarter of this  year in the latest blow to copy protection for songs bought  online.
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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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Music lovers can sample songs over the Internet without turning on a personal computer in a first-of-a-kind offering that could help popularize the concept of streaming music.
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&quot;Napster Mobile is a natural extension for the biggest brand in digital music and will enhance our development of wireless delivery,&quot; Napster Chairman and CEO Chris Gorog said.
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- Napster Inc , one of the largest  digital music retailers, said it will partner with Swedish  telecom equipment maker Ericsson   and  Chilean telecommunications company Entel PCS  to launch  its mobile music service in Latin America for the first time.
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Napster has claimed a first with the development of a subscription portable music service that delivers legal audio content to next-generation mobile phones.