Napster offers free trial of new premium service

It may not be a return to the heyday of free-and-easy song-swapping, but this month old-school Napster users have a chance to try out the newly launched service from Napster LLC with a three-day free trial period. "Hoping to persuade holiday shoppers to throw some of their gift-giving cash its way, Napster and its parent company, Roxio Inc., are offering users three days of unlimited listening of its online music catalog of over 500,000 tracks along with access to 40 on-demand radio stations throughout December, the company said Tuesday."

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