In an effort to drive consumers to their pay subscription service as well as opening up an additional stream of advertising revenue, Napster announced yesterday that it is opening up free streaming of its entire 2 million song strong library. The catch? You can only listen to a track five times before it is locked out.
They also announced Napsterlinks a music linking service so you can send a link to that deep track you found down at the thin end of the tail to a friend as well as Narchive a social network set up around the Napster library.
I imagine it is only a matter of time before somebody rips the entire Napster library by capturing the audio in real-time and hand cataloging the content. Though my calculations put the time it would take to play 2,000,000 five minute songs around twenty years…
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