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Shawn Fanning's Account Of Napster

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the folks-who-know dept.

ttol writes "Take a look at this speech Shawn Fanning did to the Congressional Committee on October 9th. He explains how Napster came about, what his visions of the digital future will be, and how everyone can be involved. It's a good read."

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  1. Re:eloquent, informative, WTG Shawn! But... by John+Jorsett · · Score: 5
    This is vague, at best. At worst, its a good reason for Napster to be shut down until the business model is a reality.

    Actually, shutting Napster down would remove a lot of the pressure on the industry to get off the dime and make online music distribution a reality. Given their druthers, they'd just as soon keep everyone buying CDs from stores until there's ice-skating in hell. If Napster went away, even thought there'd be alternatives, I think the industry would breath a big sigh of relief and then take their sweet time about implementing their own scheme.