Allow me (gently) to remind those of us too young to recall, the major labels forced a price hike on blank cassettes so as to "protect" their interests!
In this case however, the cat is out of the bag, sidestepping Napster, users can move to P2P file sharing with Gnutella and/or FreeNet even if Napster is headed for the morgue.
"giants retreat once they are easily perceived"
It must be about time to see some insurance against bad design - both on behalf of the user - and the site that contracted it! Perhaps the insurer could take their site to arbitration and ask for recompense for inordinately complicated navigational tools. Then again it's probably their own fault (often) for using a committee to choose a color scheme designed to afflict the visitor.
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Allow me (gently) to remind those of us too young to recall, the major labels forced a price hike on blank cassettes so as to "protect" their interests! In this case however, the cat is out of the bag, sidestepping Napster, users can move to P2P file sharing with Gnutella and/or FreeNet even if Napster is headed for the morgue. "giants retreat once they are easily perceived"
It must be about time to see some insurance against bad design - both on behalf of the user - and the site that contracted it! Perhaps the insurer could take their site to arbitration and ask for recompense for inordinately complicated navigational tools. Then again it's probably their own fault (often) for using a committee to choose a color scheme designed to afflict the visitor.