{"id":2950,"date":"2005-02-04T10:58:45","date_gmt":"2005-02-04T14:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2005\/02\/04\/napster-to-go-launches\/"},"modified":"2005-02-04T10:58:45","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T14:58:45","slug":"napster-to-go-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2005\/02\/04\/napster-to-go-launches\/","title":{"rendered":"Napster To Go Launches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1028'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Staci Kramer has a bunch of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paidcontent.org\/pc\/arch\/2005_02_04.shtml#012136\">good links over at PaidContent.<\/a>&nbsp; I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;ll be a total flop, but my own perspective is most similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2005\/02\/04\/napster_go_away\/\">Ashlee Vance&#8217;s.<\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\nCounter to the Napster advertising line, the math doesn&#8217;t work out for<br \/>\nme. I don&#8217;t think I spend $180 on music per year.&nbsp; I like the idea<br \/>\nof being able to explore Napster&#8217;s million track catalog, but there are<br \/>\nplenty of other ways I can discover new music for free (e.g., Internet<br \/>\nradio).&nbsp; What&#8217;s more, Napster&#8217;s catalog lacks several relatively<br \/>\nrecent albums, so I suspect I&#8217;d have to keep buying some albums on the<br \/>\nside anyway. And did I mention the DRM?&nbsp; I don&#8217;t have a problem<br \/>\nwith renting music, but I still want to be able to use my rented music<br \/>\nin legitimate ways.&nbsp; Player compatibility is just one issue &#8211; what<br \/>\nif I want to make a continuous music mix for a party?<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the online music market as a whole, subscription services probably will be the way to go in the future, but<br \/>\nI think it&#8217;s going to take some experimentation before<br \/>\nthey become broadly adopted.&nbsp; Competition and variation across price points, catalog depth, and DRM will be key.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staci Kramer has a bunch of good links over at PaidContent.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;ll be a total flop, but my own perspective is most similar to Ashlee Vance&#8217;s.&nbsp; Counter to the Napster advertising line, the math doesn&#8217;t work out for me. I don&#8217;t think I spend $180 on music per year.&nbsp; I like the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}