Sellout

Napster has really become unrecognizable, save for its mascot/logo/thing. Basically it is a completely different thing now, no longer peer to peer but pay to play…

Napster is the world’s most recognized brand in online music. Napster has extensive content agreements with the five major record labels, as well as hundreds of independents. Napster delivers access to the largest catalog of online music, with more than 500,000 tracks spanning all genres from Eminem to Miles Davis. Napster is a division of Roxio, Inc., (Nasdaq: ROXI), the Digital Media Company, provider of the best selling digital media software in the world. Napster has offices in Los Angeles and New York.

That’s what will happen to Kazaa as soon as US manages to get over all the technical legalities and sue Sharman Network’s collective asses off. Although a more likely situation will be Kazaa and the Fasttrack network being replaced by a newer program from someone else…

Oh well, Kazaa still plays an important role in the p2p community though: keeping the RIAA busy. It seems that RIAA is only concerned with tearing apart Kazaa… Gnutella-based p2p are more or less safe for now.