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Jul
Napster, once the scourge of the record industry, is to be relaunched as a legitimate service before the end of the year, it was confirmed today.
As revealed earlier this year by MediaGuardian.co.uk, US company Roxio plans to relaunch Napster as a paid-for download service along the lines of Apple’s successful iTunes, which allows Apple users to download a wide variety of tracks for 99 cents each.
Roxio, which manufacturers CD copying software, bought the rights to the Napster name last November and has since then been negotiating with major record labels in an effort to sign up a sizeable portion of their catalogues.
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