I feel that it really hasn't impacted the artists very much. I still see people buying tons of cd's, going to concerts and purchasing shirts or memorabilia, and such. Most of my friends will happily brag about their collection of 30 or 40 cd's, and when asked what mp3's even are, many of them don't know what they or don't really know where to get them. Only a handful of people are really downloading mp3's off of napster. And although it may not be right to do so, it doesn't really hurt them. I still buy the cd because I want to hear songs on the cd that aren't played on the radio. Most of these songs aren't even found on napster! You have to buy the cd to get them! Also, I probably wouldn't buy any of the songs that I downloaded from Napster in the first place. So if only a small amount of the entire population regularily downloads mp3's, then why should we worry? It's not any different than when we copied our friends casette tapes 10 years ago and passed them around to everyone in school. It didn't really hurt them then, and it isn't going to hurt them now.
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I feel that it really hasn't impacted the artists very much. I still see people buying tons of cd's, going to concerts and purchasing shirts or memorabilia, and such. Most of my friends will happily brag about their collection of 30 or 40 cd's, and when asked what mp3's even are, many of them don't know what they or don't really know where to get them. Only a handful of people are really downloading mp3's off of napster. And although it may not be right to do so, it doesn't really hurt them. I still buy the cd because I want to hear songs on the cd that aren't played on the radio. Most of these songs aren't even found on napster! You have to buy the cd to get them! Also, I probably wouldn't buy any of the songs that I downloaded from Napster in the first place. So if only a small amount of the entire population regularily downloads mp3's, then why should we worry? It's not any different than when we copied our friends casette tapes 10 years ago and passed them around to everyone in school. It didn't really hurt them then, and it isn't going to hurt them now.