Sure napster is a complex issue, but in the end if napster gets banned you can help but feel music fans are getting a bad deal. I decide to look at this issue by feeling because there are too many issues to deal with and simply in the end when you see the crazy amounts of money been made by some music groups that sometimes in cases never even sang the music (eg. milli vanilli http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Lot/6448/milli. html ) I get the feeling the current legal way of selling music is just wrong.
I believe music artists should only force money from people with their live performances, and let it be the choice of the consumer if he wants to pay a good deal of money for a cheaply mass produced item or download it via mp3. If the music band/artist is any good even just doing live performances will earn them enough money to support them selves and buy that block on mars and support there own family line for the next 20 generations.
I believe if people like Jimi Hendrix saw the music industry today he would be disgusted at the lack of quality music and just the scene of money is most important. Which is probably why legends like him haven't come around again. When Hendrix recorded Electric LadyLand (Arguably of of the greatest albums ever) he wasted most of the time in the studio just inviting people he just met and jamming. People around him described it as fun but a very expensive way to have fun. Its lost times and attitudes like these from real music legends that will probably never return with the current way music is sold.
I feel if napster had been let to grow for a few more years then been shut down it would of reached so many people that "feel" it's a good thing that it would start protests rallies maybe like protests that started the Los Angeles riots because the Rodney king beating, then again maybe its already on its way. But in the end you can only screw people for so long before something gives way.
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I believe music artists should only force money from people with their live performances, and let it be the choice of the consumer if he wants to pay a good deal of money for a cheaply mass produced item or download it via mp3. If the music band/artist is any good even just doing live performances will earn them enough money to support them selves and buy that block on mars and support there own family line for the next 20 generations.
I believe if people like Jimi Hendrix saw the music industry today he would be disgusted at the lack of quality music and just the scene of money is most important. Which is probably why legends like him haven't come around again. When Hendrix recorded Electric LadyLand (Arguably of of the greatest albums ever) he wasted most of the time in the studio just inviting people he just met and jamming. People around him described it as fun but a very expensive way to have fun. Its lost times and attitudes like these from real music legends that will probably never return with the current way music is sold.
I feel if napster had been let to grow for a few more years then been shut down it would of reached so many people that "feel" it's a good thing that it would start protests rallies maybe like protests that started the Los Angeles riots because the Rodney king beating, then again maybe its already on its way. But in the end you can only screw people for so long before something gives way.