Best Buy buys Napster

$121 million, including $67 million in cash, for 700,000 subscribers. [WSJ]

[#1 posted by Skwid , September 15, 2008 12:08 PM]

...who are these people? I certainly don't know any of them...

[#2 posted by mdh , September 15, 2008 1:53 PM]

700K subscribers? Really? Oh yeah, they give the subscriptions away with hardware purchases.

[#3 posted by historyman68 , September 15, 2008 2:46 PM]

I have a friend who loves Napster, uses it all the time, says it's really good for finding obscure punk bands. Of course, he also uses Vista...