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Name: pixie1902

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Product:	Napster
Date:	07.07.01 (54 review reads)
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Bring back Napster!

It's not just because I liked adding to my music collection this way but because I cannot see any reason for closing it down. It should be allowed to continue in full format. There is no compulsion to use it and anyone who collects songs and other audio files in this way should be entitled to continue doing so.

Apart from the fact that it allows people to listen before they buy (just as they can in HMV or Virgin Megastore), it is a great way of finding rare or unusual pieces.

I have lived in several different countries and listened to artists from each of these places. It is a little difficult in Kingston-Upon-Thames to find the latest Icelandic CDs without ordering them, paying a fortune and waiting ages for them to be delivered. Napster always provided me with the songs I was looking for. Likewise with other audio files. Jeff Foxworthy has to be my all-time favourite comedian and although when I was living in Texas and Louisiana it was easy to get hold of his material, it's a little more difficult here. However, thanks to Napster, I now have a handful of CDs of his shows.

Now what is the difference between downloading the songs/comedy shows from Napster and a friend copying a CD for me and sending it in the post? You can buy blank tapes and recording CDs and the equipment to make copies perfectly legally. So why should Napster be labelled illegal?

We constantly hear that the record companies and artists are concerned about the loss of revenue and the breach of copywright. This is just ridiculous. Do we hear writers and publishing houses up in arms about public libraries and photocopiers? These are sharing and copying instruments for printed words, just like Napster is a sharing and copying instrument for spoken/sung words. People share books when they join a library but as far as I know it hasn't led to the closure of bookstores. In fact, books are selling more than ever now.

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f people do stop buying CDs from music stores and continue to copy and share music, it is because CD prices are far too high and we no longer want to support such a scam.

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