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OK, here is a question for you all then, if the RIAA is soooo against
napster, why havn't they tried to ban news servers? they have been around a
H*ll of a lot longer than napster and i am 110% positive more copyrighted
material has been downloaded from news servers than napster can even think
of. just my 2 cents :)
>
> I think that I have a solution to the MP3 controversy. The reason that
people
> are not paying for the songs is because THERE IS NO WAY TO PAY!!
>
> What is the matter with the record companies?? Half of the music that is
on
> Napster can't even be found anywhere!! It's not like you can go to Tower
records
> and buy the CD. They don't have the songs. If they do, you'd have to buy
a
> hundred CDs to get the hundred songs you want.
>
> Why don't the record companies start their own servers?? Or license
someone to
> do it. They could either have a fixed price for each song. Or it could
depend
> upon whether it was a new song or something old. For an old song, a
nickel seems
> fair. For a new song, I don't know, 25 cents or so??
>
> If you have no way of paying for something then how can it be stealing???
It's
> not stealing if there is no way to pay for it!!
>
> The record industry has to realize that the whole world is changing.
Hell, all
> someone has to do is make arrangements with someone in some country that
does not
> honor US or international copyrights and charge 5 cents a download. I
don't see
> how you can stop someone from doing something like this when they are not
bound
> by US law.
>
> The internet is international and as far as I understand, no one owns the
> internet. That was the same mistake that IBM made when they didn't buy
DOS from
> Bill Gates. They couldn't stop people from making clones because the only
thing
> in their PC that had a copyright or patent was the operating system and
they
> didn't own it.
>
> If the person who started the internet had licensed the Web, he would be
richer
> then Gates today. But I'm glad that he didn't. The internet is the last
true
> democracy. All we need if the government sticking it's 2 cents into it
and
> blanking the whole thing up.
>
> The internet is the just about the only thing that belongs to the people.
>
> People put Gates down all of the time. And I suppose that a lot of what
he does
> is not very nice. But business is business. Stop paying the mortgage on
your
> house and see how long you live there (or the taxes for that matter). No
banks
> aren't nice either. They put people out into the streets and don't think
twice
> about doing so.
>
> That's capitalism isn't it?? You build a better mouse trap and, well you
know
> the rest.
>
> Regards,
> Larry
>
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