Copyright Theft Apparently! (Napster)

Name: Gary_Milne

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Product:	Napster
Date:	26.09.01 (63 review reads)
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Advantages: Free Songs

Disadvantages: Record Companies

About six months ago I was told when I logged onto Napster that I was banned from using their services because I had apparently breached some copyrights from the record company Telstar by downloading stuff from some of their artists...

Now I want to say is how come these record companies have the nerve to tell us what we can and cannot do, for all they know I could be sharing the files with family or a friend. Now this is my copy of the record so why am I being told what I can and cannot do with it? I've never used Napster since obviously, now I stick with a much better alternative.....Aimster.

Now I'm not saying that I just download and now buy any CD's, I've bought over 100 this year compared to about 20 or so last year so.

Aimster is far from perfect but I won't go into detail here, to sum them up Napster sold us all out, if it was going to go down it should have with its head held high and we could have had a good memory of Napster which stood up for its beliefs but no. Napster SOLD ALL OF ITS USERS OUT, no if's, no but's, they sold out and now I'm apparently meant to be "sued" which is nothing but scaremongering on behalf of Telstar, and a running scared Napster saying yes to whatever is dictated upon them.

All in all, file sharing is going to have a hard future ahead of it but it is the future. Whatever comes and goes is anyone's guess, but there certainly is the demand for it so the record companies are running scared and they know they're in trouble because we won't put up with their CD prices forever.

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