Why is everybody heralding Napster as the good guys? How was/is Napster looking out for artists? How are they looking out for anybody?
Civil Disobediance, or means to participate in it. Enough people fed up with be ripped off were given a means to rebel. While napster is promoting piracy, it has brought the issue out, backed by all of its users.
Sometimes doing *WRONG* things produces needed change, for example I'd be British, rather than American if my ancestors had put up with being over-taxed. Were americans, our nation was founded on the rights of the people (rather than the rights of the Govt. or Business interests)RIAA.
As for the artists, we would all rather see our money going to them rather than...
Finally this gets to the point, this isn't about digital downloadable music, I've got better uses for my bandwidth, its the cost! And while promotion is a factor, guess what, I'd probably buy music even if there wasn't a video, print ads, tv ads, etc. I just might not buy the music that companies want me to.
BTW, if CD's are supose to be reasonably priced, why are cassetes which are printed on a smaller scale cheaper(I know they suck but still).
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Civil Disobediance, or means to participate in it. Enough people fed up with be ripped off were given a means to rebel. While napster is promoting piracy, it has brought the issue out, backed by all of its users.
Sometimes doing *WRONG* things produces needed change, for example I'd be British, rather than American if my ancestors had put up with being over-taxed. Were americans, our nation was founded on the rights of the people (rather than the rights of the Govt. or Business interests)RIAA.
As for the artists, we would all rather see our money going to them rather than...
BTW, if CD's are supose to be reasonably priced, why are cassetes which are printed on a smaller scale cheaper(I know they suck but still).
Hopefully some good comes out of all of this.