Napster flummoxed by Yahoo Music Unlimited

Despite Yahoo having put the hurt on them last week with introduction of their new budget priced
Yahoo Music Unlimited
online music download subscription service, Napster says they have no plans to drop the price they're charging for
Napster To Go. Hard to imagine why someone would pay $14.99 a month for a virtually identical service which Yahoo only charges $4.99 a month for (if you pay for a year in advance), but Napster doesn't have the deep pockets Yahoo has. You can almost hear the fear in Napster CEO Chris Gorog's voice when he talks about how unlike Yahoo they're not positioning themselves as a "discount product" (this after months and months of ads touting Napster To Go as being a better bargain than iTunes) and when he admits that his company has "no idea" what the impact of Yahoo's move will be.

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