Napster Follows Real’s Lead: Pretends To Go Free

Napster is simply offering a limited promotion of free music — in this case, the promotion lets you listen to any song five times before you have to pay up. It’s not a bad promotional idea, of course, but it’s a long way from free music.

Obviously music will never be completely free, so it’s obvious this was just an attention getter. Even so, 5 full free listens is still not such a bad idea. It’s better than the small 30 second clips that their competitors offer. Check out the full post at TechDirt.