SilentMan
join:2002-07-15
New York, NY
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| reply to TipRing2
Re: Uh! What?
said by TipRing2  :
According to -> »www.napster.com/facts.html
You can "enjoy fast and easy CD burning", "Quickly and easily transfer music to an integrated portable device" and "Integrate tracks from Napster with existing MP3 collection". And for $9.95 a month you can have "Unlimited streaming and downloading".
To me this means for $9.95 I can download everything I want and burn it to CD or transfer it to my car mp3 player. I would pay it if it means good quality, fast downloads, CD burning, and none of this misnamed beeped static filled kazaa downloads.
hey hold your horses!  :) Read that very carefully. "Integrate tracks... with existing mp3" means nothing. You probably have already wma music files and mp3 files in your music folder. What they don't tell you is that you will have to fire up your Windows Media Player to play the songs you download from this Napster since they will be DRMed.
They say that for $9.95 per month you can have unlimited streamming and downloading, BUT they don't mention "CD burning" You are assuming you can burn them, but that might not be true. Always look for the important things NOT mentioned in the ad. Don't you think they would be shouting in big words that you can burn to CD all the downloads that you get for the $9.95 monthly price? What would happen if you stop the subscription? What would happen if you burned your songs to a cd and then wanted to copy them back to a new bigger hard disk that you buy or to another pc? Would a secret code transfer to your cd during the burning process that would keep you from copying back your songs to another Hard Disk?
Like you, I would like to buy cheap high quality music, but these people write their ads very carefully to deceive and I don't like to be fooled.
Until they say very clearly: "no DRM, no windows media player required, music to own forever, no tricks", I won't buy.
One suggestion: make a list of things you would like to do with your music and then read their ad again and don't assume anything. You will be surprised! :):)
[text was edited by author 2003-10-10 04:20:36] |
