Napster hack leads to free downloads, well not really

Michael Gartenberg | February 16, 2005, 09:45 AM

Talk about sensational headlines, except it's not true. The method posted might yield something to someone absolutely determined to steal content like this but there are easier ways to do this (and no I'm not going to tell you how) and at the end of the day, that's not going to drive the market or slow it down. The slow part of this is getting folks to get used to the notion of renting music as something that co-exists with purchased stuff or getting them to buy a player that isn't an iPod.

Subscription music services battle ability to turn copy-protected downloads into unprotected files.
[CNET News.com]