Napster - Should Music Be Free To Share? Reviews

In the good old days radio was the only place where you could get your music for free. You either tuned into a crackling Radio Luxembourg whilst doing your homework or the repetitive dirge of Radio One, playing the same song eight times a day, as they still do. There are people reading this now who work with Radio One all day and can vouch for ...  Read the complete review

I believe this is the way forward for the music industry. The rip-charging of 4 quid a single has now gone. People 'share' music for free which is of course illegal but it just goes to show you that a lot of people will want to download a lot of different music. Also this is a great as idea as it then makes 'file sharing' via Napster pointless. ...  Read the complete review

Although it appears Napster is no more, there are still plenty of other fils sharing programs out there than allow you to download music without any real cost. The legal ethics are always pretty shady and in a way it's strange that people don't consider it stealing. Yet it's also strange that record companies only now have started to ...  Read the complete review

Those of us of a certain age (pre-CD) will remember the joy of getting a two-deck tape recorder, so we could copy our friend's tape collection. More youthful DooYooers will probably fondly remember their first CD burner, so they could copy their mates' CDs. And really, when it comes down to it, that's all Napster (RIP) and ...  Read the complete review

I am really new to mp3 and music sites, so when i enquired after this new phonomenon i was directed to napster, which is the most well known. Unfortunately, for me, this came too late, as the site was almost closed due to court cases, so i went in search of different ones, although there were plenty i found downloading time excessive and ...  Read the complete review

Who pays for music these days? the only people i know of are those who dont use the internet much or real hardcore fans. This should probably go in as a short oppinion but I am not sure how much extra i will write on later. i am interested to know whether anyone else is like me and never! buys any music. Call me cheap but I ...  Read the complete review

The people who now expect napster users to pay for the service are the ones who are going to lose out in the end. I myself can think of a few other services - all just as good as napster - where anyone can download not only music but videos, software you name it for absolutely nothing. Services such as morpheus, kazaa, winmx and a few more all ...  Read the complete review

When I first heard about napster I thought that it would be a decent website such as Amazon.co.uk where you buy the music and then download it. BUt when I heard that we were getting it all free, I thought... Hey, how do the artists get the money???? Now I know that there is talk over introducing charges, but this does not change anything. ...  Read the complete review

Napster has been around for some time now and will probably turn into a “Pay-Per-Download site” very soon, and good ridden, I say. Napster is illegal! The Napster and MP3 revolution is ripping of the industry and giving the people whose music that you listen to less and less incentive to carry on. Many people may ...  Read the complete review

Since Napster is no longer, this opinion is about the sharing of music files in general. I joined Napster at the tail end, a few months before it was shut down. At that point in time, I wasn't interested in downloading whole albums - I would just download a few songs from an album as a taster before I bought it. Now I have Kazaa, which is so ...  Read the complete review

Being a very active Mp3 downloader i certainly do not think that people like me should have to pay for the MP3s. Some my say that my opinion is biased and hey it probably is but, its my honest opinion. Napster is just the most famous of hundreds maybe thousands of places that you can download free music from varous artists. If Napster was ...  Read the complete review

What are mp3s other than the latest medium of allowing music to be heard, liked or disliked and then bought? If this is such a taboo then why not ban the radio as it does the same job. Okay I’m being a little extreme and obviously there are a few differences such as the radio pays the artists for the songs they play, but mp3s allows ...  Read the complete review

I am writing this off the top of my head and that head is full of flu so apologies if my ramblings take a turn for the worse. Sneeze. Cough. Snot. I have only had direct access to the internet since January this year. I used to use the computers at University but alas you could not really download onto the hard drive. So 2001 brought ...  Read the complete review

I have thought about this and I have arguments for and against free music downloading from Napster etc. My actual opinion is that you should be able to download music freely. But I also believe in a money-less society and communism. Neither of these will happen until greed and selfishness (I’m not showing of my ego by claiming I ...  Read the complete review

If you ask me should music be free, I would say yes. When I see on Television and reading in papers the obscene amounts of money certain artist are paid it makes me mad. Their main claim to this amount of money is they need it got develop their skills i.e. better recording studios, better CD production and promotion of the products. They say ...  Read the complete review

I am a former user of that infamous vehicle Napster, and can categorically state that although the MP3's were indeed free, so often was I coming across unknown bands and FAB pieces of music that I might never normally have stumbled across, that my bank account started to take a serious downward plunge towards that greatly feared 'red' ...  Read the complete review

In the very ancient past, music was shared between the community as something that people could enjoy for free, something to bring people together. Nowadays however performers have become greedy and are charging over the top prices for people to hear their music. Now, thanks to pioneers such as Napster, music is free for people to share, and that ...  Read the complete review

Napster - an International debate on whether it should be allow to let users download music for free. It is said to be introducing charges for it's service, and yeah there are alternatives, however Napster is Napster. We must fight it! I had Napster and through a recomendation from a friend, I heard of new bands like Alien Ant Farm ...  Read the complete review

One of the major talking points of this year has concerned Napster, an online program which allows users to register and download music for free. There has been a lengthy court battle over the future of Napster and at this moment, it's future still hangs on the balance. But is what they are doing right? Should we have the right to download ...  Read the complete review

I personally think that napster should not be shut down.I think this because not everyone can afford to buy music from shops as it is too expensive.Therefore napster allows people to hear music they like and enjoy,I dont their is anything wrong in doing that.I do feel that their should be a registration fee,for napster though as then the artists ...  Read the complete review