quoted 5 lines The more I think about napster's plight, the more I see a revolution away> >The more I think about napster's plight, the more I see a revolution away
> >from the morality of money.
>
> I see it a little differently now, Napster are out to set themselves up as
> the next stage in selling us digital downloads. They wanna be the first
and
quoted 5 lines the biggest when the crunchtime comes. I reckon they are fighting the case> the biggest when the crunchtime comes. I reckon they are fighting the case
> purely for publicity, and they'll be the first to run a dl charging system
> or subscription system with labeles allowing tracks to be used for their
> cut. The names too big and as a brand is carrying too much money for it to
> sink when they lose the copyright case.
so, you're saying that, despite whatever napster's original intents were,
it's now doing this for publicity. while napster becomes a household name
(that the owners have copyright license of), they work behind the scenes to
work with labels so that they charge a fee per download, easing people into
the "pay per song" route of mp3's. or a monthly subscription rate to
napster, and as long as it's not hugely expensive, people will do it because
they've been using it for free for so long, see how popular it's become, and
don't care to hunt for something else (since they only heard about napster
from the news anyways).
how fiendish!
of course, it'd be interesting to see how they would charge people for
putting their own collections of music online and receive no dividends from
the profit (since napster only has a database, and no real music on it).
quoted 1 line So while we the supporters of Napster are praying for cheaper music,> So while we the supporters of Napster are praying for cheaper music,
someone
quoted 2 lines is already devising a way to replace stores (and eventually record> is already devising a way to replace stores (and eventually record
> companies) by providing another barrier between artist and consumer.
well i wouldn't say we are the supporters of napster. most "idm" stuff is
easier to find in record shops than on napster, and many of "us" also dig
vinyl. i'm sure we log onto napster for our britney spears fix, but
personally i don't do much more than that :)
i also think that idm will disappear more from napster if people have to pay
for it, mainly because idm peepz tend to associate music wif the people
making it (like, "oh this song is by arovane, he's a cool cat"), so would
rather spend money on the cd or get it on a non-napster server than shell
out to a company who's never heard of arovane (or anyone else for that
matter).
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