$480 million in 3 years. Here is CNN's article, which informs us that these companies cost us around $480 million over the last 3 years. When the industry starts playing fair again every CD should be $2-5 cheaper. This is ridiculous. And my local paper said the FTC doesn't plan to pursue fines. So we all lost out. And they wonder why we turn to napster, while they are constantly screwing us with illegal business practices? I'm through, from now on I buy only used CD's, or use napster.
I participated in last night's chat, although they didn't answer any of my questions (The moderator liked picking easy ones). Metallica's view of the situation, or at least the impression they are trying to get us to believe, is that they only gave the list to Napster to prove how common their files are on the service. They said they have no intention of going after these fans, whatever their intentions may be. More disturbingly, their idea of an ideal resolution to the situation is to shut down Napster permanently. Despite the fact that they acknowledge bootlegging as an acceptable practice, they don't want us to have the option of trading even legal files over Napster.
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$480 million in 3 years. Here is CNN's article, which informs us that these companies cost us around $480 million over the last 3 years. When the industry starts playing fair again every CD should be $2-5 cheaper. This is ridiculous. And my local paper said the FTC doesn't plan to pursue fines. So we all lost out. And they wonder why we turn to napster, while they are constantly screwing us with illegal business practices? I'm through, from now on I buy only used CD's, or use napster.
I participated in last night's chat, although they didn't answer any of my questions (The moderator liked picking easy ones). Metallica's view of the situation, or at least the impression they are trying to get us to believe, is that they only gave the list to Napster to prove how common their files are on the service. They said they have no intention of going after these fans, whatever their intentions may be. More disturbingly, their idea of an ideal resolution to the situation is to shut down Napster permanently. Despite the fact that they acknowledge bootlegging as an acceptable practice, they don't want us to have the option of trading even legal files over Napster.