New Legit Napster Service Coming

Serith submitted a CNN story talking about the new Napster Service. This is of course an attempt to legitimize music sharing. Provided the price point is fair and paying is convenient, I'll be first in line. Of course the odds of that happening seems awfully weak.

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Re:duking it out in the courts

[grub]

this reminds me of when the photocopiers in the libraries had to have huge disclaimers about copying any material that was copyrighted.

When office copiers were first coming out, publishers of recipe books fought to prevent them from being available too easily. Their fear? Secretaries, who at the time were mainly female, would copy recipes out of books for swapping amongst themselves.

Im not sure why this is so complicated ...

[bizitch]

I always fealt that the easiest way for the record industry to counter this is to simply make legitimate purchase easier that p2p.

Imagine being able to walk into Best Buy (using a kiosk for the broadband impaired) or a simple web page and accomplish the following.

1) Design/burn your own music CD selected from the complete vast archives of the music biz.
2) Each song being 128k quality or better or varying based on cost
3) Each song costing anywhere between 49-99 cents each
4) Each song delivered in choice of format (.mp3 or wav etc...)
5) Provide some kind of e-receipt which you could use to re-download/burn music that you lost or damaged (eliminate need for "backup")

Then all they would need to do is promote the crap out of the service using all the money they saved from not suing the crap out of everyone.