i've found a website on which you can listen to all the songs you like for FREE, and it's legal because they pay rights to the majors and all that. the website is called deezer ( http://www.deezer.com/en ) and on it you can stream all the songs you like without installing anythin and all taht. it's just brilliant to find all the music you like in just a few clicks, just love it, give it a try if you want to !!

...when they finally wise up and start offering music in FLAC.

Oliver.

Ya, well I STILL to this day will NOT buy anything from Metallica. Those jerks will never see another penny of mine after the original Napster fiasco. Many people feel the same way about those arses.

What I would like to see is a site which you can create Video DVD's and download. Something were you can select 10+ tracks from various artists and the site gets the high quality music video's, creates them into a DVD/ISO for you do download. Again pay by the track. It would be good to create a dvd to watch of your favourate songs which are no longer able to be found or are never played anymore.

back to try before you buy then. Make it easy for me, or give me the address of the artist who music i jsut ripped, so i can forward him some honest cash.

Don't make me pay for the drm garbage you wack on cd's, or overcharge in the UK because you think we are all stupid enough to just go ahead and do so.

sorry, rant over.

Feeling better?

So these tracks have so called watermarks?

Does anyone really believe these are inaudible?

Oh and Inq., change the title to "Napster opens the United States's largest MP3 store" please.

Am I the only one going off Inq. due to this sort of lazy IT reporting?

...can you not use a web proxy that's within the US and buy/download through that?

Napster was fun when you could download things for free from there. :)

I have no direct affiliation w/ Napster but am in the same end of the business - It's likely that Napster made the decision to go US only because /some/ distribution is better than none and the labels still aren't dealing with any single entity for worldwide distribution. The digital distribution market is changing rapidly and there will be a number of different competing models until the best few shake out.

When can we expect something like that in Canada? If they can send me music CDs from the US, why can't I just buy mp3s too?

Yet another site pops of with play all, download all, copy all, but ONLY if you live in the US.

What's the big deal about this ? - if I pay for the music I should be able to download it where ever I'm located in the world.

Great idea with an online store but sucks when it just doesn't work outside the US.

Checked Napster.ca... No MP3s, just the DRM crap still.

The price, the format and the range looks good, but "We're sorry but you cannot purchase tracks from outside the United States.".

Maybe an english blog should have mentioned this somewhere...

"Napster will sell individual MP3 tracks for 99 cents each"

Or you know, 79p. Because thats what a 1.97 dollar to the pound ratio gets you these days.