I do. It really is a great service. For $13 a month you get pretty much all the music you want streaming to your computer. For someone who is at a computer all day, its great. Also, as someone who goes from obsession to obsession, it really does fit the bill. The one drawback is that artists can mark their tracks as "Buy Only" and while it was rare to come across this at first, it seems more and more artists (probably the labels actually) have been restricting their music. With Best Buy coming into the picture, I can only see profit becoming a bigger factor. I imagine I will cancel my subscription sooner rather than later. How do you do business with a company that tries to sell you an HDMI cable for $80 with a straight face?
"From the release, the proposed acquisition includes Napster’s approximately 700,000 digital entertainment subscribers..."
$173 per subscriber seems a little high to me.
Agreed, though I'm sure Best Buy will be able to market the product much better than it is currently - and to hoards of people who probably use iTunes and don't know of any unlimited subscription options unless they happen to have caught a Rhapsody commercial and had their interest piqued.
Really? They're paying a little more than 1x the revenue per subscriber, which sounds like a great deal. It's not an ad-supported web2.0 company.
agree. It is not an ad-supported company which make its subscriber more valuable because they actually paid.
I think there needs to be another "Halo Law" for non-profitable internet acquisitions.