It also faces stiff competition while Napster morphed from its lawless larval stage to a dues-paying music service, consumers in search of free content have had their pick of surviving peer-to-peer applications and torrent sites that more than make up for the loss of the original rogue site. Today’s Napster requires a grown-up kind of commitment: a credit card and a monthly subscription. Long gone are the days of free-flowing music from the vine of central servers. If the original Napster was a loud, raucous garage band made up of drunken college students, the present offering is what happens when the band sobers up, signs to a major label, and starts house hunting.
At the ripe old age of ten, the current incarnation of the Napster music service scarcely resembles its former bawdy self.
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