>>and Napster has no other purpose aside from providing a black market.
I beg to differ... The newest release (7 beta i think) has an entire tab devoted to new artists who have consented to having their music available. I am not saying that the majority of Napster users care about this feature but it is there. To shut napster down would be a huge diservice (sp) to these artists.
On a side note did anyone catch the MTV video music awards the other night? (cricket noises) Ok, well yea I know it's lame but it was on at my gf's house. Anyway Shawn Fanning came out to introduce an act and he was wearing a Metallica t-shirt. The camera cut to Lars Ulrich in the audience, his reaction was priceless.
What I don't understand is people defending these record companies and artists so vehemently. Guess what? These people are still going to be millionaires when you wake up tommorow. Stop whining like the sniveling capitalist whores that you are and realize that the future is upon us. Napster has crossed a line by bringing this freedom to the mainstream. Do you think that if they somehow manage to shut Napster down that the 20 million (and growing) users of Napster will just say "aw shucks" and go to the record store? Not a chance. Instead of fighting against it's time for these companies, and artists to find a new business model that meshes with the technology. If you remember the industry fought against VHS with the same fury. Guess what? A new business model formed. Rented a movie lately?
Maybe this means that the current distributors will be obsolete. I can see how that would be scary to them. That is a hell of a lot of money lost with that business model. If the distributors are smart they should be making plans to distribute on the web and coming up with incentives for fans to download the content from them.
If all else fails artists have tours to fall back on. Can't download a live show. Can't reproduce stepping in vomit or stage diving digitally... yet;)
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I beg to differ... The newest release (7 beta i think) has an entire tab devoted to new artists who have consented to having their music available. I am not saying that the majority of Napster users care about this feature but it is there. To shut napster down would be a huge diservice (sp) to these artists.
-valgrim
On a side note did anyone catch the MTV video music awards the other night? (cricket noises) Ok, well yea I know it's lame but it was on at my gf's house. Anyway Shawn Fanning came out to introduce an act and he was wearing a Metallica t-shirt. The camera cut to Lars Ulrich in the audience, his reaction was priceless.
What I don't understand is people defending these record companies and artists so vehemently. Guess what? These people are still going to be millionaires when you wake up tommorow. Stop whining like the sniveling capitalist whores that you are and realize that the future is upon us. Napster has crossed a line by bringing this freedom to the mainstream. Do you think that if they somehow manage to shut Napster down that the 20 million (and growing) users of Napster will just say "aw shucks" and go to the record store? Not a chance. Instead of fighting against it's time for these companies, and artists to find a new business model that meshes with the technology. If you remember the industry fought against VHS with the same fury. Guess what? A new business model formed. Rented a movie lately?
Maybe this means that the current distributors will be obsolete. I can see how that would be scary to them. That is a hell of a lot of money lost with that business model. If the distributors are smart they should be making plans to distribute on the web and coming up with incentives for fans to download the content from them.
If all else fails artists have tours to fall back on. Can't download a live show. Can't reproduce stepping in vomit or stage diving digitally... yet ;)
-valgrim
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