Comments on: Roxio sells software division, focuses on Napster

Software company sells old business for $80 million and stakes future on digital music.

[skeptik]

the definition of irony

A company which made it's fortunes selling software used exetnsively in the "piracy" of digital music jumps the fence, abondoning the loyal customers it earned by providing tools for the freedom of empowerment to focus on enslaving the content upon which it's previous product succeeded.
I wish them luck, but I won't be making the jump with them.

[tomrlumsden]

Roxio/Napster

I agree 100%. I wonder if this move has anything to do with the amount of 'pestering' they have been doing lately to try and boost $'s by having you update their programs? It seems that everytime I try to use CD Creator, I get a message to update....if you cancel that, your program doesn't work anymore and you have to reinstall it????

[Aardasp]

Rats jumping a sinking ship...

After the way they DESTROYED PhotoSuite with their redesign, and the "Nice" but BLOATED CD/DVD Creator 7 suite... I'm not AT ALL surprised they are "jumping the software ship"!!!!!!

I am just sorry that they didn't do it much sooner..., BEFORE they ruined Photosuite!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kxmmxk]

Oh well

They did exactly make there living by selling stuff to pirate music. Toast, for example, has been around more than a decade and enabled people to burn CDs then DVDs full of files to back up systems and create product. Roxio was just a spin off of Adaptec.

That said, I have never been able to get Toast6 DVD burning working. And Creator has slide to Nero. Adaptec made much better products than whoever is running the ship now. Hopefully Sonic will improve the products and make them reliable once again.

Who cares about Napster, I have iTunes.

[Aardasp]

Could be interesting...

Right on..., Based on how poorly ROXIO people did with their sw products [http:// ..."Snatching Defeat from the hands of victory"...|http:// ..."Snatching Defeat from the hands of victory"...] perhaps they will sink NAPSTER also...!