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Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Downloading pioneer Napster branches out to Canada with legal music site

Vancouver Sun: "The music software responsible for kicking the music industry upside down some five years ago has officially crossed the border. Napster.ca went live coast to coast Wednesday and hopes its heavy brand recognition combined with hipster origins will lure music fans to the service over others already available in Canada, namely Puretracks.com and Archambault.ca ... Canada is the second international market for Napster. It launched in the U.K. last week. Before going live, Napster acquired music rights from the country's five major labels - Universal, Warner, EMI, BMG and Sony - as well as several home grown indie labels, growing its library to more than 300,000 tracks. By comparison, Puretracks has only 175,000 songs."

Looks like Napster beat iTunes to Canada as well. Very interesting, and unexpected.

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