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Napster |
| Date: |
26/09/01 (68 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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- 01/10/01 I can see both sides point of view but you should have explained the artists problems more. |
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- 26/09/01 Few points I have to pull you up on, as basically what you have here is mostly misconceptions which are commonly spread around...
The record companies have every right to say what you can and can't do. Reason is, yes OK, the major artists make a shedload of money, so you might think 'Why should they worry about sharing'. The problem comes for the not well known artists, who rely on the royalty check that comes in the mail every three months to survive - which comes directly from CD sales. To say that Napster clones don't lower CD sales is nonsense - they might not lower Madonna's sales, but they sure do lower lesser artist's sales - a fact often hushed up by mp3 enthusiasts.
Als o, the reason for high CD prices is the same reason we have high costs for most things in this country - a)high cost of import and b)tax. Admittedly the prices are high, but that's only because the industry has to make money to keep the struggling artists out there going, not the Madonna's and the Fat boy Slims...
...and to use an analogy - Tesco's for example - they have lots of food, who are they to say what should be done with it? They should share it out, people should just pick stuff up and not pay for it. Or, that is, if people think that Napster is OK. |
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- 26/09/01 Ditto, this opinion is so one sided it's unbelievable. |
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