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 Anyone else agree, it's a watse of time to shut down sites like napster?
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Elite Bodybuilder 
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The cat's already out of the bag. The technology is known now. For every site shut down, 3 more can easily spring up.     | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
Posts: 1013 |
I agree, they might stop some, but they wont stop them all.... | ||
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Moderator 
Posts: 6923 |
The point of the court proceedings is not to shut down Napster but to make song-sharing on the Internet known as STEALING in the US population. Those corporate bastards know exactly what they are doing. | ||
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Moderator
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2Thick, I agree. (Yes, it happens) The record companies are pissed because for so long, they were the only ones who were allowed to rip off the artists.... Why not set the server up in Sri Lanka or somewhere remote....where no one cares about US laws? | ||
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Freak
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I know if I was a musician and some dick-head was giving away the albums that i was trying to sell I would be very upset too. Fuck that stupid kid. ------------------ | ||
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Cool Novice 
Posts: 45 |
Maybe this will make these bastards make more than one good song on each cd! While I agree that singers are losing some money to MP3s, most artists make their money in concerts, not cd sales. It's the producers and record labels that piss and moan about MP3 sites because they are the ones losing big money. Screw em, they can't stop technology, they better find someone else to screw over. I don't see all the stockbrokers crying about online trading (although they probably are). I have a buddy that just got out of school and passed his Series 7, and now he is getting ready to go back to school. Why should these big record labels cry? Fuck em! They are just like sports agents - fuck them too! ------------------ | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder 
Posts: 230 |
I agree Napster rips off the artists. I use it though because I like saving money. I can't afford to buy all the music I want to hear. | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 92 |
Know what I always wondered, OK, lets say you are poor, and are never going to have money to buy a cd. Lets say the only way you can listen to music in through mp3 and the radio. Lets say a band came ut with an album, and all their songs were played ont her adio over a certain amount of time, and you heard them all. They're basically imprinted in your head if you liked them enough, and you didn't have to pay the radio station money to listen, so why the heck should the band get pissed if you downloaded all those songs that you hear off the radio in an mp3 format? I mean you're going to hear them through the radio, why not just download them? Plus, whats funny, is I can see greedy bands like metallica sitting around somewhere and being like oh yeah we make music, we write songs, were great you wanna hear us play a song for you? 50 dollars please! Yeesh, I mean ok, I can understand totally that musicians make music to pay bills, and hopefully be a star, but goddamn, are there any anymore that write and play it just for the love of it, and to let others hear their work without having to pay them? Gawd. The whole music world is just so materialistic. | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder 
Posts: 303 |
they've been releasing statistics showing how the advent of napster has made a huge decrease in single sales but not in albums. solution-- make singles cheaper. on a single u get 1 good track and one turd one. on an albumn u get loads. and albumn is 4 times as much as a single. go figure ------------------ | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 59 |
we have had napster fo a long time... it used to be called a library... there is no reason these fucks should have eternal rights to their songs!!!! its a patent... it should expir.... ------------------ | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 235 |
to address the topic, of course it's a waste of time. file sharing technology is up, up and away - now Napster has legal problems (but can still continue to function in some ways) it will just spread its users over to other file sharing programs like Gnutella, Audiognome, iMesh, Bearshare etc. etc. i can't see how it's going to stop. | ||
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Olympian 
Posts: 1662 |
I agree. I had over 300 albums before I even heard of Napster, FTP client and Audio Galaxy. Even if they make Napster and the clones illegal, mp3's will still be obtainable through IRC and other channels. | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
Posts: 1186 |
BarbarianHorde really got the idea of my original post. Even they made it illegal to trade mp3 and other files. There's no way to stop it. I say why even bother? Hell you can even trade files and the messengers like msn, aim and ICQ. |
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