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So, you can listen to your favourite song five times and then find a new favourite one!

Napster Launches Limited Free Service
Napster is offering free music again. However this time, itís legal.
Napster, Inc. re-launched its Napster.com Web site today (May 1), allowing users to search and listen to any song in its 2 million-track library free for up to five plays. The service does not require users to download any software, only register with a valid e-mail address.
The new Napster relies on advertising to compensate record labels and artists, who will share in the ad revenue the site generates. Napster is selling banner ads on the Napster.com site, as well as including premium audio and video ads in the music player.
Once a song has been streamed five times, listeners are offered the chance to either buy the track for 99 cents, or subscribe to one of the companyís monthly usage plans.
The Napster.com service also provides links that users can embed into e-mail, instant messages, blogs or Web sites to let others stream songs free as well. Finally, the company added a public music archive called the “Narchive” -ó a site where users can upload personal stories, photos and other data to what amounts to a community blog of sorts.
Napster.com is available on all operating systems and Web browsers in the U.S only, but the company says it has plans to extend the service overseas in the near future.