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I saw this over at punkmusic.com: "Napster's has decided on a way of dealing with all the problems with the RIAA and their nasty lawyers. They are going charge users a fee of $4.95 per month to use the service. While the price is not very expensive, it kind of defeats the idea behing Napster in the first place. If people wanted to pay for mp3's they would have bought them from emusic. Hank Barry (the CEO) said that the plan would provide the major record companies seventy to eighty percent of the royalties due (which is estimated to be about 1/2 billion dollars a year) " Well, if you don't want to pay, you can use other servers like the ones over at napigator.com which lists servers based on the OpenNap protocol, which is completely compatible with the current versions of Napster…