Well the market can't be that terrible. Other companies seem to be jumping in now, including start-up's Spotify, Nokia's new 'come with music' service and a new Napster style subscription service from Microsoft recently. There has also been rumours of Apple doing the same for a while too. I personally think the subscription model has just been slow to take off, but i do think it will ultimately work - it's just a mater of who will be left when it does. So maybe this a canny move by Napster to head of the increasing competition that starting to spring up now. Thats assuming this -is- a price war, we dont know what Napster's finances are like or what their long term game plan is - don't forget this is only for streaming - the ability to transfer music to off-line mobile devices does not seem to be effected by this announcement - that's where the money must be. They could lose money (and we are making a lot of assumptions here) on streaming revenue, but draw more customers to the downloads side. It might just be strategic change, rather than a price war or kamikaze attempt at rescuing some market share. I'm personally still quite positive about the subscription model - most people i speak to really love the idea, but too many people own iPods.
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