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Napster President Accuses Apple of Creating ‘Hardware Trap’
Monday, August 22nd, 2005 at 3:00 PM - by Brad Cook
Napster president Brad Duea believes that Apple CEO Steve Jobs has "tricked people into buying a hardware trap" by virtue of the fact that songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store only play on an iPod. He expressed those views in an interview with BBC News Darren Waters.
Napster was "once a byword for piracy," as Mr. Waters puts it, but now it has over 400,000 subscribers who have access to approximately 1.5 million songs. Mr. Duea defends the subscription model, of course, labeling it an "experience" and saying that the traditional method of selling music on CD is "a forced bundle by the labels."
With subscriptions, he notes, "you can listen to the latest CDs and never again be caught buying a bad CD which has one hit song and all the rest are crap." While Mr. Duea views the iPod/iTunes music system as a closed one, he says: "The dream is that Napster would work on any PC, any player in any territory and work seamlessly."
As for the idea of owning music, he asks: "Has owning cassettes in the past really benefited people? In many cases they have had to repurchase music in a new format. I do not think the argument about ownership is such a wonderful thing. What do you really want as a music fan? It's to access music and listening to music."
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