Napster to die in Canada

[23skidoo]

I'll be honest this story surprised me because I thought Napster had disappeared years ago after all the lawsuits and the rise of iTunes. It's become so irrelevant in the public consciousness I bet a lot of folks weren't even aware it still existed. (Well, evidently so given the fact it's going out of business in Canada.)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2011/11/22/napster-canada-cancelled.html

The story says the US version will continue to operate, but I'd probably see this as a bad sign.

According to the story Napster tracks won't play on Apple devices. So does this mean everyone who has bought tracks from Napster are hooped? Or can the tracks still be burned to CD?

Alex

 

[RoJoHen]

Wow, yeah, I thought Napster died a long time ago. Who was still using it?

 

[Spot's Meow]

I'm still bitter at my parents over Napster. I was in the early years of high school at the height of its popularity, and all my friends were downloading tons of amazing music for free. My dad wouldn't let me do this, however, because he believed the music files would eat up all of the space on our computer and that they would inevitably install viruses that would destroy everything. The same month I got my own computer, Napster was no longer free.

 

[RoJoHen]

^My parents didn't know enough about computers to prevent me from downloading things.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Yeah, people in Canada have been using it because it's been the only service as an alternative to iTunes that works in Canada. Rhapsody doesn't in comparison. And it's not that it's going out of business, but that Rhapsody is buying Napster and shutting down the Canadian operation. Apparently Subscribers to Napster have gotten a letter telling them to burn to CD to circumvent the copy protection so they can still have their music.

 

[gh4chiefs]

According to the story Napster tracks won't play on Apple devices.

I assume they mean just songs accquired through the Canadian version of Naptster, because my Napster songs play just fine on my Iphone.

 

[Spot's Meow]

^My parents didn't know enough about computers to prevent me from downloading things.

My dad was into installing those child safety programs that were a huge headache for everyone involved and wouldn't let you do anything without the special code. I didn't even want to do anything wrong, I usually was just trying to do homework.

 

[RoJoHen]

Ah. It's 10 years later, and my parents still barely know what computers do.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

My dad knows a lot of what computers do. My mom knows almost nothing and fears them.

 

[Unicron]

 

[TheSeeker]

My dad knows a lot of what computers do. My mom knows almost nothing and fears them.

Sounds like my in-laws!

 

[Akiraprise]

My dad knows a lot of what computers do. My mom knows almost nothing and fears them.

My parents are pretty much the same. Mom loathes them. She hates the mouse. The double click throws her for a loop.

 

[RoJoHen]

My dad knows a lot of what computers do. My mom knows almost nothing and fears them.

My parents are pretty much the same. Mom loathes them. She hates the mouse. The double click throws her for a loop.

Ugh. Our receptionist at work is like that. She double clicks EVERYTHING, even hyperlinks, and it takes her twice as long to browse because she ends up clicking extra things that she never meant to click.

 

[bigdaddy]

^My parents didn't know enough about computers to prevent me from downloading things.

My dad was into installing those child safety programs that were a huge headache for everyone involved and wouldn't let you do anything without the special code. I didn't even want to do anything wrong, I usually was just trying to do homework.

I had one of those too until I tried to go to toysrus.com and it blocked me. That was the end of that.