No Napster relaunch until next year

Why does napster think it will be the sucsess it ever whas again with a service where you need to pay for the music when you can get it for free with better file sharing programs.

Napster will not relaunch until early next year, the company's CEO told technology industry leaders today at conference in Los Angeles.

A Napster spokesman confirmed this afternoon reports that Hilbers told attendees of the Webnoize 2001 conference Napster is waiting to get "a critical mass of content" before offering a secure, subscription version to consumers.

The delay, in part, is also the result of ongoing music licensing negotiations that are under way with record labels, the spokesman said. Napster, which faces a massive copyright-infringement lawsuit from the five major recording companies, has been offline since mid-summer.

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