Business had the chance to make money from this type of model when it was just Napster. With central control, a reasonable fee for downloading and burning I think most people would pay for that as a reasonable service.
BUT, by shutting Napster down and going for the lengthly path of the law they are now too far behind.
Kazaa et al are not centrally controlled and as a result I'd guess that people will stick with the 'what I know/any ISP/free' option as opposed to the 'unknown/AOL/charge option'.
Sadly, I can see business turning round in a year and saying that the law is the only way to deal with music swapping on the net.
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... the content and presentation of the XML doc are being separated. Isn't that an inherit feature of XML?
Just who are the people who are responding to spam?
Years ago there was the excuse that inexperienced users thought it novel, but surely not now....
The only way it can work is for people to respond to the mails..
Business had the chance to make money from this type of model when it was just Napster. With central control, a reasonable fee for downloading and burning I think most people would pay for that as a reasonable service. BUT, by shutting Napster down and going for the lengthly path of the law they are now too far behind. Kazaa et al are not centrally controlled and as a result I'd guess that people will stick with the 'what I know/any ISP/free' option as opposed to the 'unknown/AOL/charge option'. Sadly, I can see business turning round in a year and saying that the law is the only way to deal with music swapping on the net.