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Product:	Napster - Should Music Be Free To Share?
Date:	08/07/01 (169 review reads)
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Advantages: try before you buy

Disadvantages: some genuine artists lose out

Free? Maybe not? Extortionate? Hell no

So the music Industry decides that Napster is eating into their profits?

I seem to recall a feature on the BBC ‘Watchdog’ programme. It was covering Supermarkets sell albums at the price of £9.99 in the UK so that they are retailing at equal prices in Europe and the UK. The record companies were less than impressed and so to combat this they decided a special ‘UK release’ was in order. This now meant that supermarkets could not buy from Europe and sell at low prices.
How did they achieve this? They added a bonus track here, a special song there, and put a little shiny sticker on the sleeve. For this privilege they decided to charge an extra couple of pounds. Then in a real urine extracting move they decided to re-release a whole bunch of albums, all the loyal fans who had bought albums in the UK were now faced with the prospect of not owning the ‘real’ album.

Why should we bow to the whim of such people who employ greedy self-interested profiteering tactics? Why should be accept the view of a bunch of money hungry gluttons who care about no one but themselves?

Another point that must be acknowledged is that record company’s claim ‘Copyrights and intellectual property laws have been violated’! To me that stinks of irony. The entire notion that some modern bands have intellectual property rights when they can barely play an instrument or write their own song is laughable, and quite frankly a joke.

So what about the bands who are talented? Who love their music? Well I think these are likely to be the ones least bothered. They are the ones who are in it for the love of music, not to make a few quick millions then sail away into obscurity.

Rock stars from the past – why do they deserve royalties? They scam millions a year by having offshore bank accounts and run crying when they are deprived of a few more pennies. r>
There is no way a fee per song system could work, would you do it? And if yes, how delighted would you feel to be told you had to pay again as your connection dropped during transfer? Pretty annoyed I would think, and that would be an understatement.

My personal experience of Napster is: first used about 6 months ago, and the proud owner of 0 albums. Stopped using 2 months ago and the proud owner of 14 albums. Why should I spend £15 a throw to dip my feet in the water?

90% of other companies offer you samples to test, to entice you into buying the full priced product, but for some reason the music industry seems to think it is above this practice. They must think we enjoy sitting at our computers for hours downloading an entire album, organizing it into an order, hen copying it onto a CD, overall time taking about 8 hours on a 56k connection.

The Music industry really needs to open its eyes and look at itself; it is quite frankly, an appalling group of people.