PressPlay + Roxio? 196
securitas writes "The NY Times and the LA Times (via SJ Mercury News) report that Roxio is close to a $30 million deal to buy Pressplay from Universal and Sony. The struggling joint-venture has less than 50,000 subscribers after three years. Roxio bought the Napster brand and assets at a bankruptcy auction last year and plans to resurrect Napster as a legal service."
Re:The reason people steal music (Score:5, Funny)
Legal service.... heh (Score:5, Funny)
Yea, I am going to let Napster represent me in a court of law!!
Re:The reason people steal music (Score:3, Funny)
Don't buy from music services (Score:0, Funny)
Similarly, the best way to hurt the intellectual property merchants is not through creating alternatives, but by overwhelming "piracy". Creating alternatives, whether free software or free music, only encourages and reinforces the idea that it is right and just that these companies maintain their disgraceful and unjust forceful monopolies.
A better, more powerfull blow is to encourage fullscale and massive piracy of every one of these attempted monopolies on ideas. Pirate Microsoft Windows, do not use Linux. pirate music, do not create free alternatives. In this way, when the great majority of people are breaking the law, but effectively demanding their rights through action, the law will have to be amended. In a democracy, the criminalisation of the overhwleming majority will not be countenanced.
Pirate well, and pirate today, for Justice!
Go Roxio! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Speaking of Napster (Score:5, Funny)