Napster Offers Free Music Service

Posted on May 4, 2006

Napster recently launched a new free music service supported solely by advertising. After several months of terse negotiations with the major record companies, Napster was able to launch the service by bargaining to split advertising revenue based on the number of times one of the label’s songs were played. The free service, which comes in addition to Napster’s existing subscription service, allows users to send direct...