Napster giving away free MP3 players

We hate to say it, but the Napster 2.0 deathwatch has begun. Probably because hardly anyone has signed up for the service, they've decided to start giving away a free 128MB Rio Chiba Sport MP3 player when you sign up for a year's subscription to their streaming audio service (straight up buying downloads costs extra). An extra eighty bucks will get you an upgrade to the 1.5GB Rio Nitrus. It seems like an okay deal until you find out that you can find the Chiba online for about $90, and that Rio Nitrus retails at about $130 online. The whole thing smacks of the sort of desperation you used to see during the dot com days, especially when you contrast it with Apple, which is doing just fine charging a lot of money for the iPod and getting people to pay to download music.