Is Free Napster Circling The Drain?
Napster is apparently phasing out its Free Napster initiative that features grainy-sounding streams of a handful of albums. The ad-supported initiative can only be accessed by going directly to the free.napser.com domain; there are no links from Napster.com. With much fanfare, Napster unveiled the free streaming service last May and declared it to be the next digital music paradigm. However, the incredibly poor sound qualtity and...
MTV Pushes Rhapsody America At Video Music Awards
MTV heavily promoted Rhapsody America, their new partnership with RealNetworks, throughout the Video Music Awards this past weekend, but it got about the same reception as Britney Spear’s don’t call it a comeback performance. The promos featured performance clips from Kanye West, and Fall Out Boy, and directed watchers to Real’s Rhapsody service. Zzzzzzzz… The Future: RealNetworks 1, MTV...






