NAPSTER VS. iTUNES: LET THE CONTEST BEGIN
By Wilson Rothman, THE NEW YORK TIMES

A Napster commercial on TV offers the following comparison.

On top, there is a single iPod. The cost to fill it, Napster says, is $10,000. Beneath it are three MP3 players: Dell's Pocket DJ, Creative's Zen Micro and iRiver's new H10. With Napster to Go, the commercial says, you can fill all three with almost any song you can think of and you're out only $15.

Next to that, in tiny print, are the words "per month."

Ordinarily such a lopsided comparison would make me cringe and conclude that it was aimed at the gullible. But this one made me re-examine my life.

Napster to Go is the latest edition of Napster's legal download service. (Although it was previewed to the public last fall, the software allowing small portable music players to work with it has become available only in the last few weeks.) A vast majority of the available tracks--Napster says 1.3 million--can be downloaded by subscribers without paying additional fees.

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