Why is it that no one is talking about the fact that Bertelsmann, the company that is backing Napster, owns BMG, a company that is being represented by the RIAA? Doesn't this show a little foresight by someone in the media business?
Ifi you asked me, I'd say it's a win-win situation for Thomas Middelhorf and his German giant. Obviously the legal issues have to be worked out, but Napster is, and will continue to be the main stop for anyone who wants to check out a song. Just after today, it won't be from Metallica or Dr. Dre.
So Napster has to start cleaning out its sytem files of copyrighted material this weekend? How many different ways of spelling Metlica are there?
But back to my point, Bertelsmann has its hands in over 600 companies around the world, and does $15 billion in REVENUE fer year. Do you think that they can't persuade just a few of our fine lawmakers to keep the process going without actually shutting down Napster? They have formulated a business model and helped put out a new version of Napster, with their self-owned little project of CDNOW. (SOMEbody's already making money off of this deal)
And someone said the Germans were stupid.
Imagination should not be used to escape reality, but should be used to create reality.
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Why is it that no one is talking about the fact that Bertelsmann, the company that is backing Napster, owns BMG, a company that is being represented by the RIAA? Doesn't this show a little foresight by someone in the media business? Ifi you asked me, I'd say it's a win-win situation for Thomas Middelhorf and his German giant. Obviously the legal issues have to be worked out, but Napster is, and will continue to be the main stop for anyone who wants to check out a song. Just after today, it won't be from Metallica or Dr. Dre. So Napster has to start cleaning out its sytem files of copyrighted material this weekend? How many different ways of spelling Metlica are there? But back to my point, Bertelsmann has its hands in over 600 companies around the world, and does $15 billion in REVENUE fer year. Do you think that they can't persuade just a few of our fine lawmakers to keep the process going without actually shutting down Napster? They have formulated a business model and helped put out a new version of Napster, with their self-owned little project of CDNOW. (SOMEbody's already making money off of this deal) And someone said the Germans were stupid. Imagination should not be used to escape reality, but should be used to create reality.