Napster recently cut off 300000 members, because Metallica sued (SP!?!? I can pronounce the word, but I've never actually written it...) them. They say that MP3 poses a threat to the music industry
Limp Bizkit, The Offspring and Public Enemy are supporting Napster (YES!!) and PE actually has run a contest in wich yiu can write lyrics concerning MP3 for their new song!
------------------ If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me. Don't judge or question. You are broken now, but faith can heal you. Just do everything I tell you to do. Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow. Let me lay my holy hand upon you. -Tool, "Opiate" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prakesh's Star Trek Site
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Well, distributing MP3s encoded from CDs is pretty much illegal, and hurts the musicians. OTOH, it's not necessarily Napster to blame, and I think they did the right thing in cutting off those members.
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Well, commercial nonsense aside, its possibly the best program I have ever come across. Losing something like it would be a blow to any kind of free underworld
------------------ "Blind faith is the crutch of fools"
(And yes, the eight percent figure is just hearsay at the moment, until I can find it again.)
------------------ "Oh, it's an anti-anti-WTO song. It's essentially a pro-Starbucks song. I saw this picture of a guy sticking his foot through a plate-glass window in a Starbucks in Seattle, and he was wearing a Nike. Man, couldn't you just change your shoes?" -- M. Doughty
The amount of CD's produced increased by 10.8%, from 847 million to 939 million. Sales increased by 12.3%, from 11.4 billion dollars to 12.8 billion.
------------------ "Oh, it's an anti-anti-WTO song. It's essentially a pro-Starbucks song. I saw this picture of a guy sticking his foot through a plate-glass window in a Starbucks in Seattle, and he was wearing a Nike. Man, couldn't you just change your shoes?" -- M. Doughty
[This message has been edited by Sol System (edited May 12, 2000).]
------------------ "Oh, it's an anti-anti-WTO song. It's essentially a pro-Starbucks song. I saw this picture of a guy sticking his foot through a plate-glass window in a Starbucks in Seattle, and he was wearing a Nike. Man, couldn't you just change your shoes?" -- M. Doughty
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As many people as were at Woodstock are trading their music, and all they can do is bitch. For some reason, the term "money-hungry morons" comes to mind...
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Well, you know, we do have laws. You can change the laws, but you can't break them.
------------------ Frank's Home Page John Flansburgh: "This song is so old that it's actually featured on our brand new record." John Linnell: "It's one of those year 2000 problems."
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More people need to copy and rip CDs, so salews will go up. Mp3 is a good thing
------------------ If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me. Don't judge or question. You are broken now, but faith can heal you. Just do everything I tell you to do. Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow. Let me lay my holy hand upon you. -Tool, "Opiate" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prakesh's Star Trek Site
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Well, just because its a law does not mean it is a just one. Now I know people can't go around breaking the law just because it inconveniences them, but as I see it, in cases like this, if companies were to make things more affordable / easier to access people would not bother to go for 'illegal' alternatives.
Either way, all corporations could do with a massive kick up the arse. The idea of the free market is for the consumer to have final control. And guess what, here we are exercising it.
------------------ "Blind faith is the crutch of fools"
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If it's not a just law, then have it changed. That's generally the only valid option.
------------------ Frank's Home Page John Flansburgh: "This song is so old that it's actually featured on our brand new record." John Linnell: "It's one of those year 2000 problems."
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I see nothing morally different between trading in music you copied without paying for it, and, say, copying and posting to your site somebody's self-created, long-sweated-over trek images without their permission.
Both are the perview of the people we generally refer to as 'scum.'
------------------ "Nobody knows this, but I'm scared all the time... of what I might do, if I ever let go." -- Michael Garibaldi
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And, thanks to you, software prices are twice what they could be.
------------------ Frank's Home Page John Flansburgh: "This song is so old that it's actually featured on our brand new record." John Linnell: "It's one of those year 2000 problems."
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