Dum dum da-dum…
According to WiredNews, Napster is going to return later this year!
Did I get your hopes up yet? Sorry, that was a cruel joke. What is going to happen, it seems, is that Napster will go live later this year, but as a subscription-based service and you still won’t find any copyrighted material on there. So Napster has essentially been reduced to an utterly impotent service, capable of delivering and providing absolutely nothing. I’ve had high hopes for what Napster could become, and I’ve not agreed with people in the past who said that Napster was dead. At this point though, Napster is worse than dead. It’s walking around okay, but the flesh is rotting off its body left and right like some sort of super-leper. So Limewire and Aimster await.