Napster Scams!!!!

OK, here's my delima. I downloaded Napster about three months ago. The first few months I didn't even use it that much but now in the past month I downloaded almost 60$ in songs. The reason I turned to Napster is because of how easy it is to find music. The problem started when they held a supposed free download weekend, where you can download up to 1500 songs for free. So that's just what I did I downloaded like 20 songs in the free category. After the weekend was over the songs wouldn't work on my computer anymore, and they said I would need to purchase them when I tried to play them. I emailed them about this problem and they told me to do a list of things and now none of my songs work because of there license agreement crap. I wrote them of this problem and told them I would like to have a refund and there phone number to resolve this matter, and I haven't heard a word from them yet.

My question to everyone is, is does any one else have any issues with Napster or does any one even use Napster. Because if they do nothing about my problem I want to report them, but I want to have some others that have been scammed too.

OR!!! If some one knows a little about getting around licenses then that would work too. I would never mess with this other wise but due to the circumstances I am.

I don't use it.

I'd say pester the living crap out of them, and if they fail to help you, go and download all the stuff you'd already bought "illegally". If you paid for it once, you deserve to own it after they break it.

That's what I was thinking too, I mean I got all the bills from my bank account that says Ive paid. I just liked the fact of how easy it was to find songs on Napster rather than places like Kazaa. I mean Ive paid for the legal version of Kazaa but its still difficult to find songs and plus there's always the chance to deal with viruses which you don't have that problem with Napster. Its just the stinkin license on every song is what gets me. I mean come on, you paid for the song you should have the same rights to it as if you bought it from the store. I mean if I wanted to copy it and sell it on the black market that's my right as an American "right" lol. Well, anyways I was just really trying to figure out if this was a small isolated incident or do they do this to a lot of people.

Napster has enough competition so that if they did try screw people over a bunch, their buisiness would suffer. At least, I think they have competition, I dunno really how many major players are in that world.

Also, I perfer to have my audio stuff in good old MP3 or OGG, because I like being able to copy it and stuff whenever I want to without worrying about whether it'll still be playable or not.

Downloading illegal music on the internet? Now I've heard of everything!

I think of all the legal online music stores on the WWW, Napster is the LAST one I would consider. I tend to favour iTMS (probably due to brand loyalty). Napster, to me, just sounds like a company that tried to get rich off of the old Napster company.

I'm not a big fan of buying music online anyways... call me old fashioned, but I like venturing into stores and buying hard goods. I'm also pretty big on eBay, you can often find CDs (new and used) for $5 USD.

Ya, I agree MadCowDzz I usually like buying the cd's from the store too, its just my wife got me turned on to the idea of saving money by only buying the songs that you want. And ya, I believe Napster is probably the same people who made the original just made it legal in every way but in the process of doing so they made it so the functionality of it sucks.

As far as EBay's concerned I have banned that site from my computer all together. Half of it was due to my stupidity but the other half was learning that they have no real safe guards to protect there customers. I tried to buy something expensive and I know the rules, don't ever send money western union, but I got an email from EBay that said that the purchase was submitted to there records for verification, and the money would be held in escrow until the item was received, I got nervous at the last minute because of a typo error in the email and it made me question it, I immediately canceled the money order, it had a password on it that once the item was recieved, then I would give it to him but still. Then after reading up on forums there were like 500 or more complaints of how even when people payed through pay pal they were scammed and EBay did nothing.

So, long story short after this matter unless Im gonna pay a bill online I am not going to purchase anything off the internet, except maybe software, thats the only thing that I havent been burned on yet. I mean if some one screws you on the computer you cant do nothing about it, but get mad and wine on forums about it. 'lol' In real world, if some one messed around like that I would go give em a piece of my mind.