You have it give it to the people who run the disinterred Napster. They don't give up.

Members of the Big Four Organized Music cartel killed the original Napster, the p2p application that started it all, did a Frankenstein, Roxio bought it, re-named itself Napster, and the Big Four then shoe-horned it into a number of senior US schools.

It's also received all kinds of mainstream media hype but notwithstanding, it's consistently failed to make any kind of impression on the people who get their music fixes from the Net.

Now, "In a bid to gain traction against Apple's dominant iTunes online music store, Napster over the weekend shifted to an advertising-supported model," says USA Today.

Visitors can listen to tunes, "But there is a catch," says the story. "You can only listen to a song five times. After that, you have to either buy it for 99 cents or sign up for a monthly subscription."

Oh.

Meanwhile, Napster says its fourth quarter net loss will be lower than originally projected

Also See:
USA Today - Napster's back to basics: Free tunes, May 1, 2006