If Chevy's only designed car had a built in jet engine, oil slick, battering ram, and 6 inch gun, and that car were used in the overwhelming majority of bank robberies, then perhaps your analogy would be more in line with reality. Napster exists to disseminate copyrighted music. This is _all_ it was ever intended to do.
I, personally think, given the current state of the record industry:
that Napster, and all the little second-gen Napster sprouts are a _good_ thing. Napster is what the music-listening world needs at the moment. But to try to liken Napster to anything other than the gargantuan freebie music-orgy that it is is deluding yourself. Call it what it is, and love it anyway.
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If Chevy's only designed car had a built in jet engine, oil slick, battering ram, and 6 inch gun, and that car were used in the overwhelming majority of bank robberies, then perhaps your analogy would be more in line with reality. Napster exists to disseminate copyrighted music. This is _all_ it was ever intended to do.
I, personally think, given the current state of the record industry:
http://www.salon.com/tech/featur e/2000/06/14/love/
that Napster, and all the little second-gen Napster sprouts are a _good_ thing. Napster is what the music-listening world needs at the moment. But to try to liken Napster to anything other than the gargantuan freebie music-orgy that it is is deluding yourself. Call it what it is, and love it anyway.