Napster to launch UK service

Napster announced that will launch a service dedicated to the UK market before "the end of summer.  That
means that Apple is still ahead in the game — they're scheduled to launch in Europe during Q2. The Apple service is
also expected to cover a number of EU countries and not just the UK.

So far the only similar services active in Europe are O2 — the biggest player,
and Wippit which has been slowly adding music
label catalogs.

The move confirms previous assessments which indicate the UK market will become the battlefield for dominance of
the global music market. Napster has chosen to "target the UK" as its first European market. A new localized version
of Napster 2.0 is set to launch in the UK "before the end of summer", the company said today. The service will be:
"Complete with UK-specific genres, promotions, and content from domestic acts, and this will be the first time
Napster has been made available outside of North America." The company will offer access to it service using a UK
domain, www.napster.co.uk.