Greenpeace criteria

Evidently these days Greenpeace only considers words, not actions:

The Greenpeace report does not scientifically compare the environmental qualities of the products of the different companies, merely the companies’ published policies.

Yes, why bother figuring out if the PR spin matches a company’s actions? I want a refund of the $20 I donated to Greenpeace back in the eighties.

Doesn’t iTMS DRM-free music make subscription obsolete?

If Apple, as promised, includes DRM-free music from the other studios, who would bother with the Napster model?

So folks have the choice of paying $1.29 for songs and owning the song in perpetuity and using it anywhere or $7 a month and have nothing once you cancel. Tough choice!

Napster needs to re-examine it’s business. It might work better as a value-added service to iTunes than following the current subscription model. If Apple succeeds in signing the other studios, Napster subscription is dead. People have clearly voted for music ownership over rental and with the last barrier removed (DRM), there is zero value offered by the subscription model. Of course, Napster will probably continue to market the quantity of music as the differentiator – maybe it’s time for Napster execs to read The Paradox of Choice.