News Best Buy to buy Napster

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/09/16/best-buy-to-buy-napster/1

US retail chain Best Buy is to purchase digital music distributor Napster for $121 million according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

Well they really want to have their own digital music store as apposed to working off of Rhapsody which hasnt been working to well for them so this will be interesting to see how this plays out.

 

I like the idea that this merger should increase the songs available, but I also dislike the idea of best buy running the show. I just don't like the idea of having my information shared to multiple companies just to use one service. And Best Buy doesn't get my vote for their cashiers asking for things like phone numbers or other personal information when I make high dollar purchases.