Napster is dead long life napster.
update Napster's file-swapping service neared the weeklong mark Friday, as the company continued to cite database "upgrades" as the source of its blackout. The hiatus comes shortly after Napster disabled old versions of its software. It pushed its members to a new version that rendered the service unusable, blocking even the most obscure, uncopyrighted works from being traded. |
But people logging on this week were unable to trade even the few songs left. The company posted a message on its Web page saying that "file transfers have been temporarily suspended while Napster upgrades its databases."
The closed doors represent the latest setback for a service that has been rendered almost irrelevant in the day-to-day world of online consumer music. Most of the millions of people that once flocked to Napster daily have fled for alternative services. Like Napster, many of these rivals are operating on legally tenuous ground, but they increasingly offer the breadth of music that has vanished from the former leader's service.
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Source: CnNet
