Napster plans for user-friendly MP3s

January 07th, 2008 | Category: Internet, Consumer Experience, Competitive Strategy

Napster (NASDAQ: NAPS) — the mother of all file-sharing services that in 10 years’ date has found itself one among many digital-music services struggling for its very survival — is hoping its new move will attract more users. nowadays, Napster CEO Chris Gorog said the company is shifting to MP3 downloads free of digital-rights-management software [subscription required], or DRM.

The move is expected to occur sometime in the moment quarter, but Napster has yet to finalize the arrangements with some of the four major music companies -

Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE), Warner Music Group, EMI Group and Vivendi SA’s Universal Music Group. The final three on that list recently began selling MP3s on the download service available through Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN). Sony has yet to report plans to sell its tracks as MP3s, but is reportedly expected to come forward soon.

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Original post by Beth Gaston Moon

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