Napster 2.0 goes live in the UK

LONDON, UK (Napster.co.uk announcement) - Music fans across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland can now access the UK's largest digital music catalogue by downloading Napster 2.0 (www.napster.co.uk).
Roxio Inc. has announced that the highly anticipated Napster 2.0 legal online music service went live to music fans across the UK today with the UK's largest online music catalogue.

UK residents can now download the new Napster 2.0 music service for free. The world's most recognized brand in online music provides both a subscription service and an a la carte download store putting the power of choice in the hands of music fans.

Napster allows subscribers to listen legally on demand to more than 500,000 full-length, CD quality tracks - which will grow to over 700,000 tracks in the next 30 days as the company completes loading of its massive catalogue.
The UK Napster follows completion of agreements in the UK with all five major record companies - BMG, EMI, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music International, and Warner Music International - as well as independent labels body AIM.

After downloading the free Napster jukebox for just 9.95 pounds Sterling a month, Napster subscribers can listen to the largest digital music catalogue on demand, and download any track they choose onto the hard drives of up to three PCs and listen offline - to save bandwidth while they surf, or for convenience when on the go.
If UK music fans elect not to become a subscriber, by downloading Napster for free, they can still purchase tracks any time they want for 1.09 pounds Sterling and albums for 9.95 pounds Sterling after listening to free 30-second samples of the Napster UK library.
At no cost, Napster Light users can organize their entire music collection in Napster by using the ripping software in the Napster jukebox to take tracks from CDs they already own to play on Napster, import MP3s into their Napster Library, or transfer tracks they've bought to a wide range of portable devices. Napster Light also offers consumers free access to Fuzz, Napster's online magazine; their own Napster Inbox; and the chance to sample the OCC UK charts.