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Napster Not To Blame

Posted by Hemos on from the killing-the-messenger dept.

enjo13 writes "Slate is running an article on the music industries recent troubles. It articulates exactly what Slashdot has preached all along.. that the Music industry is suffering at its own hands and has no one to blame but itself. All I have to say is... finally." There's actually been a number of pieces like this, but I think this one says it best.

5 of 616 comments (clear)

  1. I feel that this article is in error by Tim_F · · Score: 0, Troll

    Napster is indeed to blame for the decline in sales. It is much easier to download something than to go to the store and pay for it. And besides, once downloaded, you can then burn it onto an audio cd.

  2. Slate is hardly unbiased journalizm by Totally_Lost · · Score: 0, Troll

    It is interesting to have this form crying about copyright violation of open source code today, while continuing to deny that the film/music industry has exactly the same copyright protections.

  3. One question.. by ROBOKATZ · · Score: 0, Troll

    What the fuck is LNUX doing at 1.54? Buyout rumors?? Why would anyone want them?

  4. Hypocritical bastards... by tempest303 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes, that's it! It's ALL the RIAA's fault! They MADE you download the software, and held a gun to your head to click that "Install" button. Then they theatened to asault your families if you didn't "share"* as many MP3s as you could!

    * what a laughable term for what Napster was about. Yeah, it wasn't "stealing" in the traditional dictionary definition, but what would you have said if someone were "sharing" binary-only modified copies of GPL'd software? Would that still be sharing? Or would it now be stealing?

    For that matter, if the music the RIAA put out was SOOOO bad, why are all you jerkoffs so desperate to get your hands on it via Napster, Gnutella, et al? You're as shitty as the **AA fuckers you're supposedly against.

    Finally, for the record, I am a GPL-phile. This doesn't mean I'm for "Everything should be Free Beer!", but rather that I feel I must have a degree of respect for ALL intellectual property rights, even the ones that I think suck, excepting, of course, anything that skirts honest Fair Use.

    That said, dare to challenge your views! And feel free to mod me down, bitches! I have no fear of /. hypocricy!

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  5. Re:Wrongo. by The+FooMiester · · Score: 1, Troll

    I'm not sure about the imperial *loads, but a METRIC fuckload is equal to a metric shitload of metric assloads.

    HTH

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