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Napster files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Joey Patterson writes "CNN Money reports that Napster has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy." Thank god the industry shut them down... now that piracy
has been stopped they can all sleep much better.
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"RIAA Sues Audiogalaxy"
The music/movie industry seems to be going after napster and co one after the other, with the money and clout they weld who can and will stand upto them? We can look forward to corporate networks serving you movies/music for monthly charges continuing their shrink wrap monopolies.
I'm sure there's something I don't understand about this, but...
Sure they could move their servers offshore. But they still have to have a business located somewhere. If you have an office or employees in a country, you (or at least the portion of the company that those employees work for) need to follow the law in that country. Moving the server to Sealand doesn't mean that your office in New Jersey can't be issued a summons. Even if you incorporate offshore and have your employees telecommute, you need to have at least bank routing to get them their paychecks. The government can impound those accounts.
Sealand only seems to me to be a good place for individuals to host info pages, not to run a business out of.
That's why Kazaa LITE is the bIZZomb - no adware. As for virii, just like anything else, a little common sense will steer you clear of the hazards.
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-Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music.
I'll let the misspelling go, because this is Slashdot. However, you buy "litteraly tons of DVDs". A DVD weighs about 15g. Let's be generous, and assume you were including the packaging in your wight calculations, which would put it up around 150g per DVD. A ton of DVDs would therefore be ~6600 disks and packaging. You have tons, i.e. at least two, so we conclude that you have at least 13,000 DVDs.
Where do you keep them all?
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If you're looking for live blues traveler you should check out furthur www.furthurnet.com. Its a free and legal mp3 live performance program that allows trading of artists who allow it. And blues traveler is on the list. Check it out.
Napster's business model was based on stealing. Let me repeat that one more time, just in case you didn't get the point. Napster's business model was based on stealing.
It seems to me that Napster simply provided a service to make easier what was and still is common practice: sharing music. Napster took the practice farther than it had been taken before, and so became a test as to what extent music sharing could be taken and remain acceptable, but it essentially offered nothing that wasn't available before in one form or another.
Fundamentally, there was nothing immoral or unethical about what Napster did. You, I, and the RIAA may all have our own ideas as to what extent the sharing of music should be tolerated. So did Napster. It appears that, in the U.S., the lower courts didn't agree with Napster. But they didn't endorse the RIAA's or anyone else's vision of what should or shouldn't be allowed either. The question remains unresolved, but certainly Napster served to bring the question into the public eye.
The aftermath of Napster has brought many public policy questions to the forefront, most of which remain unanswered. While the RIAA may have preferred that the questions remained unasked, I happen to disagree and think that Napster did us a great service by forcing the issue. (The fact that I was able to locate some old tracks that I had until then never been able to find anywhere was a pleasant side benefit.)
Stealing and theft are heavily loaded terms which imply that one has already made a moral judgement about an issue which is far from cut and dried. Downloading music is only stealing if society collectively decides that it is. And that decision has yet to be made.
There's no such thing as Scotchtoberfest!