1) IRC is already muffed up enough already. Look at dalnet and efnet for christ sakes. Dalnet has always had lag issues between long distance servers, meaning people wishing to chat in regular groups usually use the same server (defeating the purpose of a network). EFnet had it's "OMG we're dissapearing" scare earlier in the year. And it's overrun by lamers.
2) There are ALREADY mp3 channels. They are not that hard to find, or use. To return idiot newbie and/or idiot industry attention to these souces, which have improved since everyone started using Napster, would be brutal to say the least.
3) (I know) OpenNap, Audiogalaxy, gnutella, freenet, do we really need another one?
Has anyone thought that perhaps Napster will kill Napster? The software is still version 2 beta 6, resumeing is impossible, modem users find the service horribly frustraiting, and although the search facilites are the best ever anywhere, usually if your ISP modem-kicks you after 2 hours and you reconnect there is no guarantee that those files will still be there. Yeah you can use napigator to remain on the same server but it is hardly the same thing. Little things like this will make disgruntled users seek other systems, inless they get sorted. And they hardly will. And anyway if Napster goes then maybe we could be left in peace. IRC is still there, @locator will always work, ppl will make their own file sharing systems. Maybe running Napster as a company was a awful mistake in the first place.
I live in the most polluted city in the country which isn't London. It's meant to be caused by cars and so on, and every time my dad comes here he complains of the smell. Weather this destroys intelligence, however, could be argued. How many uni grads come from the country, compared to those from inner-city/suburban areas?
This may be a ewe in sheeps clothing, a middle class idea trying to cover a very wide city problem still felt in some poor areas.
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Two things:
1) IRC is already muffed up enough already. Look at dalnet and efnet for christ sakes. Dalnet has always had lag issues between long distance servers, meaning people wishing to chat in regular groups usually use the same server (defeating the purpose of a network). EFnet had it's "OMG we're dissapearing" scare earlier in the year. And it's overrun by lamers.
2) There are ALREADY mp3 channels. They are not that hard to find, or use. To return idiot newbie and/or idiot industry attention to these souces, which have improved since everyone started using Napster, would be brutal to say the least.
3) (I know) OpenNap, Audiogalaxy, gnutella, freenet, do we really need another one?
Has anyone thought that perhaps Napster will kill Napster? The software is still version 2 beta 6, resumeing is impossible, modem users find the service horribly frustraiting, and although the search facilites are the best ever anywhere, usually if your ISP modem-kicks you after 2 hours and you reconnect there is no guarantee that those files will still be there. Yeah you can use napigator to remain on the same server but it is hardly the same thing. Little things like this will make disgruntled users seek other systems, inless they get sorted. And they hardly will. And anyway if Napster goes then maybe we could be left in peace. IRC is still there, @locator will always work, ppl will make their own file sharing systems. Maybe running Napster as a company was a awful mistake in the first place.
I live in the most polluted city in the country which isn't London. It's meant to be caused by cars and so on, and every time my dad comes here he complains of the smell. Weather this destroys intelligence, however, could be argued. How many uni grads come from the country, compared to those from inner-city/suburban areas?
This may be a ewe in sheeps clothing, a middle class idea trying to cover a very wide city problem still felt in some poor areas.