Federal Court Nixes Napster's Free Service

dlupyan writes: "A federal appeals court said Monday that Napster Inc. may not resume its free online file-swapping service."

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Napster is a tool

[bpb213]

(sometimes its best to let a dead giant lay, but im going to bring it up anyway) ;)
Im of the opinion that Napster, Morpheous, Kazaa, Gnutella, they are all tools. Software cannot be blamed for its users actions. Admittingly, napster was a fool for keeping a central database, but in the end i dont think napster was responsible for violating the RIAA's pockets. The users where the ones that stole from the RIAA, not napster. Hell, i could use CVS to trade MP3s, you going to try to stop me from running a CVS server too? How about FTP? Window$ Networking? you going to stop all of those because they stop you from crushing the consumer? I dont think so.
The RIAA should step off its money bag and start producing incentives for people to buy the content. DVD music for example - make it cheaper (oh, i know perfectly well it cost you less then a $1 to produce, there is no justification for charging $25 except to line your bulging pockets) and put some goodies on it.
I envision a $15 audio DVD, where $8 goes to the record label for production and marketing and whatnot, but the other seven ACTUALLY MAKES IT TO THE ARTIST. (yeah right they say, like well ever actually pay the artists).
I can actually see people buying a $15 dvd audio disc, as that would kick the crap out of the lowly 128k/s song off the internet.

BBC also has an article about it

[Tasty Beef Jerky]

Somewhat more informative, and without the nasty full-page flash advert before opening it. Link