Napster has started selling per song downloads in it's Napster music store, as of yesterday they have added even more choice to iPod and MP3 users everywhere. DRM (Digital Rights Management) Free and useable on any portable media device, Napster hopes to lure some iTunes customers over to their non-copyrighted music selection. With Amazon.com starting to sell MP3's in it's store and Napster on-board, will iTunes continue to dominate? I'm sure that if you own a MP3 player that isn't an iPod, you'll most likely be moving to the DRM free environments. Once you pay for the song, the digital file is yours, you can back it up, use it on any device, not so with iTunes DRM content.
It's not expected that many iTunes users will jump ship to Amazon or Napster, iTunes is integrated with the iPod and iPhone.
Napsters market appeal will be to the audio file that likes to rip a MP3 DVD for a home theater experiance, or a non-ipod device like a Blackberry Curve, or the new BB Bold series 9000.
Napsters Subscription Services, which allows you unlimited access to music content to enjoy, is still a DRM environment and not to be confused with the new Digital Music Store. Now if you just love a song you can buy it and use it else where.
Napster MP3s will be priced at 99 cents each, while full-album downloads will start at $9.95 US, the company said.
Napster official site
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