The Null Device

Napster to charge access fees, in order to pay royalties in the hope that the RIAA doesn't have its guts for garters. Wonder whether they'll do this by charging fees for usernames/passwords with the existing protocol, or by "de-commoditising" the protocol and forcing people to use the closed-source Windows client? (Hope it's not the latter; other than not being able to use a decent operating system, clients for proprietary protocols often take advantage of this to send marketable user information back to their masters.)

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