Mntsnow
02-17-2005, 7:14 AM
Users have found a way to skirt copy protection on Napster Inc.'s portable music subscription service just days after its high-profile launch, potentially letting them make CDs with hundreds of thousands of songs for free.
Such users are already providing instructions to other would-be song burners through technology Web sites like BoingBoing.
Napster is currently offering a free trial of its new Napster To Go service, which, for a monthly $15 fee, will enable users to download as much music as they want and transfer it to a portable device. They can also pay 99 cents for each track they want to burn to a CD.
That "rental" model for digital entertainment, backed by giant software concern Microsoft Corp. (Research) and others, is getting its most serious mass-market tryout yet with Napster To Go.
But, according to various Web sites, thwarting the intellectual property protections of the service is as easy as a free software patch. Read more at Cnn Money (http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/15/technology/personaltech/napster.reut/index.htm)
Such users are already providing instructions to other would-be song burners through technology Web sites like BoingBoing.
Napster is currently offering a free trial of its new Napster To Go service, which, for a monthly $15 fee, will enable users to download as much music as they want and transfer it to a portable device. They can also pay 99 cents for each track they want to burn to a CD.
That "rental" model for digital entertainment, backed by giant software concern Microsoft Corp. (Research) and others, is getting its most serious mass-market tryout yet with Napster To Go.
But, according to various Web sites, thwarting the intellectual property protections of the service is as easy as a free software patch. Read more at Cnn Money (http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/15/technology/personaltech/napster.reut/index.htm)