Ok, yes, I am pissed as well. But let's look at the reasoning behind this. Money. Napster has just been bullied into this. Naptser is going to go up against the entire music industry? Come on. Now yes, sitting in our dorms and cubes we want Napster to be idealistic and keep fighting, but how many of us really would when it comes down to financial security?
Now, I would also like to point out that the record companies have been demonized quite a bit during this whole discussion. GOOD. The thing that really bugs me about these guys is that since the institution of MP3's and RIO players and all of that, guess what, their sales have still gone up! And this starving artist bit is really getting on my nerves as well. The only artists that would be hurt by Napster and MP3's are the ones who have the big names, and their not. When was the last time you traded a Ray Stevens MP3? It is only the multimillionaire artists who are effected at ALL. This is just another way for government to restrict information on the Internet.
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Ok, yes, I am pissed as well. But let's look at the reasoning behind this. Money. Napster has just been bullied into this. Naptser is going to go up against the entire music industry? Come on. Now yes, sitting in our dorms and cubes we want Napster to be idealistic and keep fighting, but how many of us really would when it comes down to financial security?
Now, I would also like to point out that the record companies have been demonized quite a bit during this whole discussion. GOOD. The thing that really bugs me about these guys is that since the institution of MP3's and RIO players and all of that, guess what, their sales have still gone up! And this starving artist bit is really getting on my nerves as well. The only artists that would be hurt by Napster and MP3's are the ones who have the big names, and their not. When was the last time you traded a Ray Stevens MP3? It is only the multimillionaire artists who are effected at ALL. This is just another way for government to restrict information on the Internet.