Tag: Washington Post

An unintentionally amusing paragraph from this Washington Post story speculating about the eventual disappearance of physical media for distribution of music,

Indeed, Napster’s To Go subscription service allows buyers to essentially rent an unlimited amount of music for $15 per month. A subscription-based service will be built into the latest version of Microsoft Windows; for between $10 and $20, users will access songs for a monthly fee but will be unable to burn them onto CDs. The only way they’ll be able to listen to them is via a digital music player such as the iPod, or on a computer.

Um, no, buying an iPod would be stupid! I think that’s a good example of the sort of difficulties that Napster is going to have to overcome.