i dont care about the artists income, or their suffering, or 'stealing'. im an internet thief. 20 million of us are. lol.... RIAA is pissing in their pants.
First off, I've seen many good points pointed out by many people about the current Napster situation, but for some reason, there's always some annoying joe that has to argue some small insiginificant point just to waste time.
Here's The facts:
1.Napvigator/openNap, etc. has the same content or more than the standard Napster servers.
2. Napster and Napster's service is LEGAL. i.e. technically, they are completely legitamite. What is trying to be proved by the RIAA is that the current legalese that protects Napster(i.e. no illegal links on the Napster server) is killing the music industry. Napster may be shut down. Grr...
3.Most people, if offered something they want for free, will take it. If you're morally against this, go join the FBI to do internet crackdowns, but sorry, you can't get in because a. YOU DIDN'T GO TO LAW SCHOOL b. YOU THINK YOU KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THE LAW CUZ YOU READ NEWSWEEK c. YOU'RE JUST A COMMUNITY COLLEGE REJECT/LIBERAL ARTS (that failed to do well on the LSAT) MAJOR!
4. Coders will always react faster than lawyers and old senators like Orin Hatch who thought IP address meant Intellectual Property Address (in which the the president of Napster politely corrected him)
5. There are smart people that happen to be fast coders that love free music that will share music via encryption, if it comes down to it, and they don't care about your AOL-this-is-wrong-go-to-Church opinion.
6. People's demands for free music cannot be stopped, once they've tasted Napster, do you think they're just going to give up? hell no.
For now, there are alt-Napsters. If necessary, there will be encrypt-Napsters. There will be enhanced Gnutellas.
Information or media of any kind can NEVER be contained. Information WANTS to be free. It lives on without us, because it is the power of ideas, content, or music (that inspires ideas, feelings, etc.) that pushes each new generation to latch on without anyone pushing them.
To all the moral preachers: Shut-up, no one really cares about your opinion, you DONT count, sorry.
To all the complainers: There's nothing to worry about. They can't control the net.
To all the uber-coders (im not talking about your city college breed..): Code on and shut everyone up... The one who coded Napster made everyone stop for a while, then everyone talks about it... Dont just talk about it, code it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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same here... i dont plan to buy CD's anymore
i dont care about the artists income, or their suffering, or 'stealing'. im an internet thief. 20 million of us are. lol.... RIAA is pissing in their pants.
First off, I've seen many good points pointed out by many people about the current Napster situation, but for some reason, there's always some annoying joe that has to argue some small insiginificant point just to waste time.
Here's The facts:
1.Napvigator/openNap, etc. has the same content or more than the standard Napster servers.
2. Napster and Napster's service is LEGAL. i.e. technically, they are completely legitamite. What is trying to be proved by the RIAA is that the current legalese that protects Napster(i.e. no illegal links on the Napster server) is killing the music industry.
Napster may be shut down. Grr...
3.Most people, if offered something they want for free, will take it. If you're morally against this, go join the FBI to do internet crackdowns, but sorry, you can't get in because a. YOU DIDN'T GO TO LAW SCHOOL b. YOU THINK YOU KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THE LAW CUZ YOU READ NEWSWEEK c. YOU'RE JUST A COMMUNITY COLLEGE REJECT/LIBERAL ARTS (that failed to do well on the LSAT) MAJOR!
4. Coders will always react faster than lawyers and old senators like Orin Hatch who thought IP address meant Intellectual Property Address (in which the the president of Napster politely corrected him)
5. There are smart people that happen to be fast coders that love free music that will share music via encryption, if it comes down to it, and they don't care about your AOL-this-is-wrong-go-to-Church opinion.
6. People's demands for free music cannot be stopped, once they've tasted Napster, do you think they're just going to give up? hell no.
For now, there are alt-Napsters.
If necessary, there will be encrypt-Napsters.
There will be enhanced Gnutellas.
Information or media of any kind can NEVER be contained. Information WANTS to be free. It lives on without us, because it is the power of ideas, content, or music (that inspires ideas, feelings, etc.) that pushes each new generation to latch on without anyone pushing them.
To all the moral preachers: Shut-up, no one really cares about your opinion, you DONT count, sorry.
To all the complainers: There's nothing to worry about. They can't control the net.
To all the uber-coders (im not talking about your city college breed..): Code on and shut everyone up...
The one who coded Napster made everyone stop for a while, then everyone talks about it... Dont just talk about it, code it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
.... go. code!