The sole reason behind anybody's discrepency with Napster is because there is a group, maybe even the majority its users abuse what it is capable of. They (they being college students and others with high-bandwidth connections [T1, cable modems & DSL]) are using Napster to download entire albums and put them on recordable CDs. They don't see this as wrong, merely because they can, "beat the system & get away with it." They don't feel it is a threat to the artists & that not enough people are doing it to affect
sales. This is what the RIAA is targeting. But the problem herein lies in what people do with the technology. Napster provides the means but it's the people who infringe copyrights. If you look at it, a VCR can be Napster. Illegal copies can be made but is the VCR illegal? It's all in the eye of the beho
In my humble opinion, there is nothing wrong with getting the album or selected songs for a trial period. How this works is simple; like it, buy it. If not, trash it. This doesn't have to be enforced but easily code be with an encoded encryption into each file. This has been how I have been operating since about 1998. Bare in mind this was before I had a cable modem (savior) and the advent of Napster. This was accomplished thru FTP sites. This took MUCH longer but I still abided by my code.
Besides the first two advantages of Napster and MP3 in general provides, there is yet another; the availability of rare songs. Let's face it, some songs are hard to find and in some cases, nearly impossible. Using Napster, many rare songs are now available such as the case with Metallica's "Outlaw Torn" off of the Load album. The rare version of the
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