"Matthew Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Actually i can almost guarantee that newsgroups over thier entire
>lifetime have had more copyrighted material downloaded from them than
>napster ever has. they were going very very strong when i was in
>college, and this was in '92, and i know they were around a long long
>time before i noticed them. so over both thier life span's i
>seriously doubt that the amount of audio only transfered by napster
>comes close to news services.
I was referring to music, not copyrighted material in general. Just like
IRC, the proportion of people using Napster is much greater than the
proportion using Newsgroups, especially for music exchange. The media
frenzy surrounding Napster over the past year has only increased the use
of Napster.
The transfer of audio content via newsgroups has never shut down
university networks. It has never clogged the data lines at large
companies... Napster use has, so badly that many universities and
companies banned its use. The amount of music content transferred between
users using Napster has simply been phenomenal.
Napster has brought peer-to-peer data transfer to the masses, unlike IRC
and newsgroups, which are largely used by more savvy computer users.
Those users will always figure out a way to transfer content amongst
them. The impact Napster has had is that it makes it easy for *anyone*
who can click a button to tranfer copyrighted material.
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