too true, I was going to wait until i setteled in my new flat before using mail order but now i'll buy it and send it to my parents address. Prices will go up
The subject he was trying to explain IMHO was that napster requires no personal links between people to share music, a musician such as this will perform and compose for the benefit of his fans and his own needs to retain fame/status. Many of the people replying to this topic will never have created anything that another person wishes to listen/read let alone copy, perhaps there is an inherent jealousy and as such satisfaction in depriving the owners of such of work from the appreciation show in a willingness to pay for it. Napster is not a brilliant file sharing client, it is good at finding mp3's though. The more serious sharing facilities, such as setting up a private gnutella network or direct connect , allow you in some cases to copy a persons entire music collection with full albums and usually a common bitrate. If you can find someone with similar or equally eclectic tastes and are able to copy their entire collection then a serious threat to the music industry will exist. Perhaps in 5 years time people will "own" collecions based entirelly on copies, nevar having purchased or benefited the orginal owners in any way
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Perhaps the contract price has set variables on the upper and lower prices, these contracts usually exclude selling below cost price
too true, I was going to wait until i setteled in my new flat before using mail order but now i'll buy it and send it to my parents address. Prices will go up
The subject he was trying to explain IMHO was that napster requires no personal links between people to share music, a musician such as this will perform and compose for the benefit of his fans and his own needs to retain fame/status. Many of the people replying to this topic will never have created anything that another person wishes to listen/read let alone copy, perhaps there is an inherent jealousy and as such satisfaction in depriving the owners of such of work from the appreciation show in a willingness to pay for it. Napster is not a brilliant file sharing client, it is good at finding mp3's though. The more serious sharing facilities, such as setting up a private gnutella network or direct connect , allow you in some cases to copy a persons entire music collection with full albums and usually a common bitrate. If you can find someone with similar or equally eclectic tastes and are able to copy their entire collection then a serious threat to the music industry will exist. Perhaps in 5 years time people will "own" collecions based entirelly on copies, nevar having purchased or benefited the orginal owners in any way