Just a few days after Napster spent $2.4 million to promote it’s new, $15 per month, music rental service, Napster To Go, enterprising souls have already cracked the code allowing people to get up to 20,160 minutes worth of free music during the service’s 14 day free trial period. That amounts to 252, 80 minute CDs. The site reports the hack works with Napster’s standard service as well. Seems Napster is destined to be a free music service after all.
While it takes some work and some time, the process is not complicated and is described here.
Napster has responded with “A note from Napster’s CTO” on their website claiming, as if to deflect focus from Napster, the hack will work on any music service. We’re wondering how other music services feel about Napster’s CTO making that statement publicly. It seems, though, Napster’s CTO statement is referring to a process other than the one described on the “marv on record” site. We’ll leave that technical debate to the geeks.
While we don’t entirely condone the stealing of music, we do get a rise from “power of the people” responses to large corporation’s stifling business practices. Music executives everywhere are wishing the computer was never invented.
