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Napster Settles with Metallica/Dr. Dre
jeffy124 writes: "Metallica and Dr Dre have settled their lawsuits against Napster. Lars Ulrich says the terms of settlement allow Metallica to have final say over what songs of their's are permitted to be traded over the Napster service." It's pretty easy to settle when you're completely shut down anyway.
go to http://www.joecartoon.com/buddies/index.html
and click on napster bad.
for a recorded interview with Lars on Napster and these events.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Interestingly, someone here pointed out that searches for N'Synch and Ricky Martin yeilded results when artists like Tom Waits were blocked.
One has to wonder if the companies were keeping some searches unblocked, just to see how it affected their sales.
Personally, I don't think I'm alone in being some one who mainly used Napster for old, obscure songs that I doubted I'd be able to find at the local CD store. I can't help but wonder if that's the market that the RIAA really wanted to kill, while examining the viability of the peer-to-peer market for new releases.
I will miss Napster's feature of seeing what else a user has on their hard drive - If someone actually has Etta James' "Out of The Rain" or Gavin Bryars' "Jesus Blood Never Failed me Yet", I want to see what else they have. Probably stuff worth acquiring...
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Hey, in my day we used mp3 search engines and FTP,like Oth.net
Metallica/Dre have agreed to allow some of their songs to be traded, and the ones that are allowed will be rotated from time to time. Which sounds like a decent compromise to me. But the RIAA (which claims to be representing said artists among others) is claiming that napster is still in violation of copyright laws by doing such a thing. I will say, I have new found respect for Metallica/Dre (even though i hate their music anyway), but this just confirms the RIAA is a bunch of money-grubbing execs who don't care whether or not they hold the copyright for the music they sue for the infringement of.
I am !amused.
Last time I connected to Napster, I wanted to perform a search about David Lee Roth.
No result.
I then mis-typed his name "Dave Lee Roth" and, hey ! Almost all...
If this is only what these so called filters consist of, then I guess some r3b3lZ L4ngu4g3 might do the trick?
Of course, we will have to change the way we write names whenever a new "adapted" Napster version will occur, but... well, ain't this a typical example of Darwinian Evolution, where the predators are the Majors?
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In recent news Napster had finalized their 100% filter!
From now on, any file that falls under the wildcard "*.mp3" will be blocked.
Napster was unavailable for comment.
Nope, not me, I must be someone else...
...When somebody downloads Dr. Dre music from Napster it's stealing. But when Dr. Dre steals others music, it's called sampling?
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