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# BREAKING NAPSTER’S RENTAL CODE
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/breaking_napste/
- Published: 2005-02-15T17:39:12.000Z
- Updated: 2005-02-15T17:39:12.000Z
- Description: I have to admit that we thought Napster’s new 10,000 "rental" service was a potential step in the right direction. An ever revolving customizable 10,0000 song collection available for for. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2005/02/breaking_napste.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Major Labels, Streaming, Vinyl, Cassettes & Retail, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:10

I have to admit that we thought Napster’s new 10,000 "rental" service was a potential step in the right direction. An ever revolving customizable 10,0000 song collection available for for the cost of 10-12 CD’s made sense to us.

[![Napsterlogo_3](https://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/images/napsterlogo_3.gif "Napsterlogo_3")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/napsterlogo%5F3.gif&ref=hypebot.com)

But it didn’t long for someone to break Napster’s code and figure out how to make the rental collection permanently yours. As the blog [Gizmodo](http://www,gizmodo.com/?ref=hypebot.com) reports, "You know, if you sign up for Napster-to-Go and don’t realize that your music is going to disappear when you stop paying them money, you’re not a victim of the bloodsucking media barons—you’re a tard. Once, I payed the cable company $50 a month, but then I stopped paying them, and they turned off my cable! Fortunately, I was smart enough to record all my favorite episodes of *That’s So Raven*, which was against the rules of the contract that I signed up for, but hey! Tough shit."

"So here’s a way to record music you’re getting from Napster-to-Go into WAV

[![Napsterbunny_6](https://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/images/napsterbunny_6.gif "Napsterbunny_6")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/napsterbunny%5F6.gif&ref=hypebot.com)

files, to be burned to CDs or re-encoded to your compressed music file of choice. But you’re not *asserting your rights to culture*; you’re ripping off Napster. I mean, I don’t care, I steal plenty of music, but let’s be legit about this: If you have a problem with copyright laws, don’t think that breaking the rules of a company that’s working with the RIAA is actually changing anything except the amount of money you’re giving to artists (or at least scum-sucking middle men)."

[Here are the instructions.](http://blog.kordix.com/marv/archives/000400.html?ref=hypebot.com)

[http://blog.kordix.com/marv/archives/000400.html](http://blog.kordix.com/marv/archives/000400.html?ref=hypebot.com)