Maybe my experience with Napster wasn't the norm but I for one miss it everytime I fire up Kazzalite. I never had a hard time finding the unusual or little known on there, Live tracks, unreleased materials- everything from Jiker to Bing Crosby was easy to find and nominally easy to download. I was also the Music Director of a small Top 40 station below the radar of any of the Major Record Labels so the only way for me to get new music was Napster, and it rarely failed me. 2-3 years ago may have been the golden era of P2P though, most users were somewhat competent college students and adults. Now that every 12 year old has a 12 gig mp3 collection(all labeled Cr33D 0wnz j00 and the like) finding material is getting harder and taking longer. I've used WinMX, Limewire, Audiogalaxy(R.I.P) since Napster went down, but I still have yet to find anything that worked as well
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Maybe this is small sample bias, but I thought the same thing until my mother signed up for cable access in Iowa, she's an AOLer(I know...I know...but it's hard to give tech support from 300 miles away!) but now loves the service...if I had to offer my own hypothesis- I'd say most people are satisfied with dial up because they've never used anything but. She was fine with AOL until she finally got broadband at work, now I don't think she could go back. Would it be worth it for telcos to offer discounts to businesses/schools for broadband to spur subscribers to get the service at home in the same way Apple used to give hardware to schools?
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...when it comes to anything other than dialup access? Is it strictly a lack of competition or is there more to it? The best broadband I can get at my home is spotty cable access for $55.00 a month, so I'm almost to the point of looking at Sat. service for my internet access..it's either that or moving, and hate U-Haul.
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Maybe my experience with Napster wasn't the norm but I for one miss it everytime I fire up Kazzalite. I never had a hard time finding the unusual or little known on there, Live tracks, unreleased materials- everything from Jiker to Bing Crosby was easy to find and nominally easy to download. I was also the Music Director of a small Top 40 station below the radar of any of the Major Record Labels so the only way for me to get new music was Napster, and it rarely failed me. 2-3 years ago may have been the golden era of P2P though, most users were somewhat competent college students and adults. Now that every 12 year old has a 12 gig mp3 collection(all labeled Cr33D 0wnz j00 and the like) finding material is getting harder and taking longer. I've used WinMX, Limewire, Audiogalaxy(R.I.P) since Napster went down, but I still have yet to find anything that worked as well
Maybe this is small sample bias, but I thought the same thing until my mother signed up for cable access in Iowa, she's an AOLer(I know...I know...but it's hard to give tech support from 300 miles away!) but now loves the service...if I had to offer my own hypothesis- I'd say most people are satisfied with dial up because they've never used anything but. She was fine with AOL until she finally got broadband at work, now I don't think she could go back. Would it be worth it for telcos to offer discounts to businesses/schools for broadband to spur subscribers to get the service at home in the same way Apple used to give hardware to schools?
...when it comes to anything other than dialup access? Is it strictly a lack of competition or is there more to it? The best broadband I can get at my home is spotty cable access for $55.00 a month, so I'm almost to the point of looking at Sat. service for my internet access..it's either that or moving, and hate U-Haul.