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  Napster launch new pre-pay cards
Updated 14 October 2004, 15.26
Someone downloading music from Napster
Digital music download service Napster have introduced pre-pay cards so that Under 18s who don't have credit or debit cards can now use their service.

The cards are a bit like pre-pay mobile cards, where you pay in advance and have credit to download songs.

Napster are the first big download provider to offer pre-pay cards, which will be on sale in electronics shops.

Editor of digital music magazine Rip & Burn, hopes it'll encourage young illegal downloaders to do it legally.

"It makes it a lot easier for young people - they are mainly the ones who are illegally downloading - to switch over to legal downloads," he said.

Last week the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) said it was planning to sue net users it said were illegally swapping music online.

Rival download providers Apple's iTunes and OD2 don't offer pre-pay cards at the moment, but OD2 say they are planning to launch them soon

Napster pre-paid cards will be available in two different amounts, £14.85 for 15 tracks (99p per track) and £56.95 for 60 tracks (95p per track).

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