From: "Matthew Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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 :)
Cos the music industry sees Napster as a blatant music piracy tool-- you
go online and download anything you fancy from anyone else while they do
the same with your collection available. And the more anyone downloads,
the more there is for everyone else next time. I got a bud who works for
Trading Standards here in Britain, he's a good guy who is serious about his
job and I think he'll have no regrets when Napster vanishes. I understand
how he feels but Napster do not themselves do anything wrong, they merely
provide the means to exchange information- if some of that info is material
you have not paid for, napster are not to blame-- I'm certain that is in the
Napster aggrement when you install it.
Course the net is faster than these media moguls and I've already downloaded
an altrnative prog thanks to someone who replied earlier, and if US bans
Napster, wots the bet some European company wont do their equivalent. These
servers don't really hold anything, just relay (vast amounts) of traffic,
they could be set up anywhere. Just stick an advertising banner on it and
politely ask peeps to click and Bob's your uncle :-) Hell, I heard Brunei
does not even recognise copyright law and you can freely copy anything.
Apologies for rambling, its 0445hrs in Britain.
PrinceGaz.
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