In a bid to bolster the image of its music subscription service and lure new subscribers, Napster is returning to the days of yore by offering free music. But as you might expect, there’s a catch. Rather than offering free downloadable music, Napster is taking a page from RealNetwork’s playbook and offering free streaming music to users in an attempt to entice them. With Napster’s offering, users can listen to streaming music from any of Napster’s two million tracks, with one caveat: no single track can be played more than five times (tracked via mandatory user registration).

Source: arstechnica