July 17, 2000
8:29 PM Subscribe
From the boys who brought you Napster comes the supposed copyright-adhering, pay-to-trade file swapping service AppleSoup. Here's their press release.
So they're offering... Napster, but they make you pay for it? And they're doing this... because they have a basic faith in mankind's desire to pay for something they can get free?
Riiight. Sadly, I'm failing to come up with a bad pun on apple soup, naps, and businesses that never turn a profit.
posted by fable at 12:27 AM on July 18, 2000
Riiight. Sadly, I'm failing to come up with a bad pun on apple soup, naps, and businesses that never turn a profit.
posted by fable at 12:27 AM on July 18, 2000
For now, Napster content is free. If AppleSoup is positioned as something like "Napster with morals", the RIAA and artists could flock to it.
posted by hijinx at 4:26 AM on July 18, 2000
posted by hijinx at 4:26 AM on July 18, 2000
Hey, if you're offering mp3's and warez (all type of content) and you want people to pay for it. Chances are, they won't. Doesn't matter if it's .5 cents for a ileg copy of Photoshop, or a rip of Dr. Dre. I don't know what else they can offer besides this content. What are they hoping to do?
posted by tiaka at 5:28 AM on July 18, 2000
posted by tiaka at 5:28 AM on July 18, 2000
Everything else aside...isn't that the dumbest name you've ever heard for a company? Napster sounds kinda cool, Gnutella makes absolutely no sense but works for some reason, hell, even iMesh has that pseudo-futuristic/computer thing going for it. But...AppleSoup? C'Mon!! It sounds like a second-rate childrens book.
posted by NickBarat at 7:50 AM on July 18, 2000
posted by NickBarat at 7:50 AM on July 18, 2000
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