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AOL Signs Napster as Music Subscription Service

AOL Signs Napster as Music Subscription Service

Enterprise & IT Jan 15,2007 0

AOL signed Napster as its exclusive online music subscription service, the companies said on Friday. Napster, which is considering putting itself on the auction block, said it will replace the online service's AOL Music Now, which has about 350,000 paying subscribers.

The storied online music service hired investment bank UBS in September to explore a sale after receiving "third-party interest," Napster said at the time.

Once synonymous with piracy in online music, Napster was forced to close in July 2001 after a series of legal battles over piracy and copyright infringement.

Software company Roxio later bought Napster and relaunched it as a legal site in 2003. Roxio renamed itself Napster, and shares began trading in January 2005.

Now Napster competes with Apple's iTunes digital music store, which accounts for more than 80 percent of U.S. music download sales. ITunes songs are unplayable on devices other than Apple's iPod digital media players.

Downloads from Napster and other rivals are playable on devices made by a handful of electronics manufacturers.

AOL purchased Circuit City Stores Inc.'s online music service in 2005 to replace its previous service. As part of the latest deal, AOL will switch Circuit City's Music Now accounts to Napster in the next 60 days unless customers opt out.

AOL, the Internet division of Time Warner Inc. , also will promote Napster with links to its service throughout its free music site, AOL Music.

Napster will re-create customers' personal Music Now music libraries, including their playlists, the companies said. They also will keep Music Now's pricing tiers and transfer prepaid track credits that subscribers have in their accounts. AOL separately has a deal with iTunes through which AOL members can charge iTunes purchased media to their AOL accounts.

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