While many of these labels will welcome the decision, the huge German conglomerate Bertelsmann AG, which owns the BMG label announced a deal that would convert Napster into a subscription service that would license the use of all of its music available for downloading. But music industry officials hoping today's court decision will put a stop to the unlicensed distribution of music will be disappointed. As the controversy over Napster erupted, several clone technologies using the same system of exchanging music have also appeared, such as OpenNap , and MyNapster , which will all continue to operate, at least for the time being, regardless of what happens to Napster itself. Many Napster users have made it clear they will not subscribe to a pay Napster service and are already using software that connects to alternative services to continue trading music and other files. Two free popular programs which can access music from a variety of networks at once are Bearshare and WinMX .
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