quoted 12 lines However - the more I've talked to "normal" people about this issue (i.e.
>However - the more I've talked to "normal" people about this issue (i.e.
>people who aren't on this list and who don't have the same sort of
>obsession about music as most of us do), the more I've come to discover
>that a large majority of the people using Napster and other methods of MP3
>trading or collection DO consider MP3s to be an adequate substitute to
>"real" music formats.
>
>Why do you think college campuses are starting to shut down the Napster
>ports on their firewalls? Because college students are downloading entire
>albums by artists like Smashing Pumpkins, Oasis, Korn or whoever at an
>astounding rate.
>
Actually, it's funny you should mention it. In my residence hall Napster
use is running rampant, but the director of the residence halls' only
concern was that it was taking up bandwidth, not that it was stealing, they
didn't even touch that issue, kinda funny. I know of one guy at my school
who is buying a something like 20 gig HD just for downloaded music. Sure
people aren't doing it on a widespread level, but only time will tell when
the technology will be available to everyone to upload their whole CD
collection on and download someone else's whole CD collection. We all know
how fast technology travels, our first modem just a couple years ago was
just a 2400 bps, know what I mean?
Ok, if it's for a preview of the artist then that's fine, music stores do
that as well. but where do you draw the line? It appeared to me that many
songs were fine quality, and many you didn't need the album cover or notes
for. I think those who would really go out and buy the music are the
minority on Napster. I can see though that it is more of a personal,
individual issue, and I see now that there is more behind it. I'm sure most
of these people on the list wouldn't dis the artist by enjoying the music w/
out paying. Anyway, thanks for the feedback and you made me think about it
more and such.
Dev
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