> For those that don't want to waste the bandwidth (and their time), the
> gist of the above cartoon is this: "Metallica fans who spend hundreds of
> dollars buying Metallica CDs, concert tickets, t-shirts, etc. are great
> unless they download Metallica MP3's, in which case the band wants them
> to go to jail." (That, and some really stupid caricatures of the band
> members.) Nice idea except for one fact: the people downloading the songs
> aren't the people who have been buying all the CDs, concert tickets, etc.
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I cut everything except this last part. I disagree 110% with your statement
that people who use napster dont purchase cd's. Personally i do use napster
for sampling only. Since i started using it, my cd purchases have increased
big time. most of the reason is i can not stand how sh*tty mp3's sound, but
dont mind them for simple sampling of songs. The Jimmy Page / Black Crows
"live at the greek" is a great example of this. I listened to 2 songs in
MP3 format and about 5 minutes later purchased the CD online (this is when
it was only available online) so saying that all people who use napster are
just evil leeches that are sucking both the riaa and the artists dry is just
crazy. and also saying that Joe Bob that actually has 30k mp3's on his DLT
tapes is hurting the industry is crazy too. if the avg song is 3 minutes
long that would be a total of 1500 hours of music, which if listened to
straight through you would be listening to songs for over 62 days straight.
and personally i dont care who you are if you have that many mp3's you
aren't going to ever listen to them all. heck you probably dont even know
what 90% of them are. ok that was my venting.
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