True, coverage of the Napster thing is very low key, 90% of the people I talk to don't know about napster, and probably only about 5% actually have any idea of the trouble surrounding it.
As for paying by the minute, strangely, the amount of mp3's I download has more than halved since I signed up to BT's 24/7 thing. Maybe its cos of the crap service they're giving, or it could just be my crappy little 56k modem.
But back to napster, the only stuff I ever see about it is on slashdot itself.
I'll be honest here, this might sound like a good idea... Stoping the huge greedy record companies from exctracting money from the innocent little people. But there's always gonna be somebody who misuses it, finds a loophole and takes advantage.
Digital media-less music may be the way forward but thats not gonna be the case while the large record companies are still here.
I read an article recently that had a whole load of facts and figures showing where the £12.99 we spend on an album goes, I think the artist himself gets about £1.50 of it (don't quote me though). With roughly half going towards the record company.
For digital music to take off the artists would have to embrace it, I'm not saying they should give their music away for free... but they could certainly live off live performances and merchandise.
I'm bored now, and I reckon I've dished out enough bumpf for now.
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True, coverage of the Napster thing is very low key, 90% of the people I talk to don't know about napster, and probably only about 5% actually have any idea of the trouble surrounding it. As for paying by the minute, strangely, the amount of mp3's I download has more than halved since I signed up to BT's 24/7 thing. Maybe its cos of the crap service they're giving, or it could just be my crappy little 56k modem. But back to napster, the only stuff I ever see about it is on slashdot itself.
Or maybe not.
I'll be honest here, this might sound like a good idea... Stoping the huge greedy record companies from exctracting money from the innocent little people. But there's always gonna be somebody who misuses it, finds a loophole and takes advantage.
Digital media-less music may be the way forward but thats not gonna be the case while the large record companies are still here.
I read an article recently that had a whole load of facts and figures showing where the £12.99 we spend on an album goes, I think the artist himself gets about £1.50 of it (don't quote me though). With roughly half going towards the record company.
For digital music to take off the artists would have to embrace it, I'm not saying they should give their music away for free... but they could certainly live off live performances and merchandise.
I'm bored now, and I reckon I've dished out enough bumpf for now.