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Penn State Launches Napster Music Service
Owner of Azkaban writes "CNN has a story about PSU launching Napster for its own students." Also at live.psu.edu." This is the service we posted about last fall; in three days, the Penn State system has served more than 100,000 songs.
Despite all the arguments to the contrary music 'sharing' is piracy
I guess some people will not truely understand the different between copyright infringment and piracy until they are killed on the high seas by people with eye patches who go "Arrrrg!"
and in the long term it can only hurt the consumer as musicians will not make music if there is no profit on it.
Not as long as the majority of music downloaders use p2p primarily to search for new music and purchase the stuff they like.
I expressly banned my son from pirating music but the other day I saw him playing an MP3.
The horror! An mp3!
Where did it come from?
Did he download it from a bands official website where they promote their music by providing free samples?
Did he rip it himself from one of his legally purchased CDs?
Well, obviously copying of any sort is the equivilant of looting and murder on the high seas.
The office of homeland security will be by soon to escort your son to his new cave in Siberia where he will be spending the rest of his life. In fact, it is obvious that you haven't done enough to instill in your son the belief that he doesn't have the right to do whatever he wants with his own property. I guess you will have to be deported too you terrorist! You're no better than the parents of John Walker!
Nobody died when Nixon lied.
I'm meeting you half way you stupid hippies!
which comes free with their tuition.
The article says that the service is "free", but in actuality, students are paying for it in their tuition, when they could be having more useful services provided by the school, like a site license for more online research databases, or simple more trees and benches on campus.
What a waste.
And then students are told that it's "free", I bet half of them even beleave it, but as the old saying goes, "There's no free lunch", McBride seams to think there is no free SCO/linux(tm)*, and there is also no free napster.
*Largly due to the fact that he's visualy inspecting the interior of his own colon.
Less look fast, more go fast.
"as musicians will not make music if there is no profit on it."
It is really very sad to view art in this fashion, as if art was only made for profit. I have been an artist most of my life(musician, painter, writer) and I have never made a bit of art becuase I thought it would make money(I'm not saying I wouldnt be pleased if it did). NO ONE thinks, "Hey I'll become a painter and gets lots of money." It would be much more realistic to think, "I'll try to be a painter and be very poor". Real artists make art because they are compelled to do so, and simply love creating. Real artists do NOT include entertainers such as Britney Spears or the like.
Again its very sad to see people viewing art through a very narrow capitolistic frame.