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Why Napster is a rip-off
Mar. 5th, 2008 10:48 pmI wanted to get some new music to listen to. So I thought, okay, where shall I go? And ended up going to Napster because they had a week's free trial and so, obviously, I thought, 'cool, free music.'
...not so much.
Everything you download from them (unless you pay for it specifically) will only work while you have a subscription with them. Once you cancel, it won't work any more.
Okay... so I'd sign up for a month and upgrade to their 'to-go' subscription, which is touted as 'you no longer have to spend 79p a track to buy music, it's an extra fiver for as much as you download.' Fine, I thought - I'd download a load of music in that month, then cancel it, and be £15 poorer for a crapload of music.
...not so much.
Any music you don't outright pay for still won't work unless you maintain your subscription, a fact that isn't mentioned anywhere and I only discovered after prodding their customer service staff particularly hard for an answer as to why they needed my banks' permission to take money from me for albums I bought. (Thank God I only did two.)
They don't tell you that anywhere. So I basically wasted my £15. Great. No recommendations for them, by any stretch of the imagination.
...not so much.
Everything you download from them (unless you pay for it specifically) will only work while you have a subscription with them. Once you cancel, it won't work any more.
Okay... so I'd sign up for a month and upgrade to their 'to-go' subscription, which is touted as 'you no longer have to spend 79p a track to buy music, it's an extra fiver for as much as you download.' Fine, I thought - I'd download a load of music in that month, then cancel it, and be £15 poorer for a crapload of music.
...not so much.
Any music you don't outright pay for still won't work unless you maintain your subscription, a fact that isn't mentioned anywhere and I only discovered after prodding their customer service staff particularly hard for an answer as to why they needed my banks' permission to take money from me for albums I bought. (Thank God I only did two.)
They don't tell you that anywhere. So I basically wasted my £15. Great. No recommendations for them, by any stretch of the imagination.
