Obviously, it would be quite a challenge to engineer a system that would determine what would offend people. That having been said, it has no bearing whatsoever on whether or not such a system should exist on Napster. I, for one, would not like it to be there, but I would love to lead the project of making the filter. It would have to have some kind of audio-to-text conversion, then some 'intelligent' filtering crap, nothing like what we see with surfwatch, et al...
In any event, who really cares what Napster tries to do? It's just one inferior product without much competition, not because the competition sucks, but because it doesn't exist. There are far too many shortcomings there already; add a monthly charge and censorware in the middle, and Gnutella almost looks good.
What we need here is a good mp3 sharing/playing system that's open-source, cross-platform, and, most importantly, not the ugly scion of the Golden Boys of MP3 (Fanning, Frankel). I've had enough of hearing that WinAmp or Napster are anything other than products with bad competition.
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In any event, who really cares what Napster tries to do? It's just one inferior product without much competition, not because the competition sucks, but because it doesn't exist. There are far too many shortcomings there already; add a monthly charge and censorware in the middle, and Gnutella almost looks good.
What we need here is a good mp3 sharing/playing system that's open-source, cross-platform, and, most importantly, not the ugly scion of the Golden Boys of MP3 (Fanning, Frankel). I've had enough of hearing that WinAmp or Napster are anything other than products with bad competition.
Mr. Sub