re: Napster

From: Derek Brooks (dbrooks@canoemail.com)
Date: Sat Mar 31 2001 - 01:17:31 CEST

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    I confess I'm a Napster user. I probably spend about the same amount
    of money on music as I did before Napster, but I definitely have more
    music than I would have. A lot of people get pretty cynical when
    they hear stuff like this, but I feel very guilty about the music I
    have that I haven't paid for.

    MP3s work for me. I'm willing to settle for MP3 sound quality to
    stretch the budget, I'll forego cover art, don't need marketing, and
    I have little patience for paying someone to burn music onto plastic
    and ship it all the way to me in a jewel case simply because they
    aren't prepared to sell it to me in the format I would prefer.

    So I'm in a situation where I have two choices: pretend Napster
    doesn't exist, or "steal" some music.

    I credit Napster with allowing me to expand my musical horizons a
    great deal over the last year or so, and I'm sure I'll spend more on
    music over the long run as a result. I was desperately hoping that
    Napster would manage to strike a deal with the RIAA to convert to a
    fee-based service and I could start paying the artists and production
    teams for music I was dowloading. I'm still holding out for paid
    downloads.

    All this Napster talk reminded me of an article I read a few months
    ago. The author was Allan Gregg, who heads up "Canada's largest
    independent" label (Songcorp). He argues that the recording
    industry unwittingly conspires to shrink their own industry by
    blocking Napster.

    hope this link works for those interested:
    http://news.globetechnology.com/servlet/GAMArticleHTMLTemplate?
    tf=globetechnology/TGAM/NewsFullStory.html&cf=globetechnology/tech-
    config-neutral&slug=COGREGG&date=20000619

    Derek.

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