New Napster on Hold Until Next Year
Source: The Washington Post
LOS ANGELES –– Concerned that its rivals may get a bigger audience, the head of Napster hopes to press play for the embattled song-swapping service sometime next year.
Konrad Hilbers told technology industry compatriots at the Webnoize 2001 conference Monday that Napster still needs to license more major record label music before the business is ready to go online, "probably in the first quarter of next year."
It continues an extended off-line stay for Napster, once the poster child of insurgent online start-ups. But the recording industry's copyright infringement lawsuit brought the Redwood City company to its knees, and Napster has been dark since July.
