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Best Buy says it will keep all of Napster's LA-based staff, including CEO Gorog, on board. (Gorog has a 6.24% stake in his company, which includes options for 1.7 million shares and about 1 million unvested restricted stock units; all of those shares should vest when the deal closes.) In theory, this means that the landscape for digital music subscription services doesn't actually change that much: There's Napster, RealNetworks/MTV's Rhapsody, and Microsoft's Zune pass offering, and none of them have made much impact despite years of effort and millions of dollars burned.
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