Borrow your music!

Market analysts are speculating that Apple will be forced to offer a music rental/subscription service to go with its iTunes Music Store in order to compete with Napster. What?! Since when is Napster a threat? They upped their revenue forecast a million bucks so all the sudden that means everybody wants to rent their music instead of owning it? I’m sure there are a ton of people out there who love pop music who this kind of system works well for, but I’d prefer to own my music, not borrow it. I might as well just listen to the radio. I also can’t see how Napster isn’t in a bad financial situation with their service being cracked by users so that they can save the files indefinitely using a winamp plug-in. But, who knows, with the record labels chomping at the bit to raise the fee for downloaded music, maybe Apple really will be forced to at least add the option.