>Well hey, this is where Napster and mp3.com fill
>a gap. Small bands that want to be heard cannot
>rely on the majors to do it for them. This gives
>the majors entirely TOO MUCH negotiating strength.
I don't know, whether it was Napster Inc. or RIAA who made the
original mistake. Anyhow, by reacting like a paradroid to this file
sharing proggy, the recording industry actually succeeded to give
birth to a huge anti-record-companies phenomenon. There wasn't that
before Napster. People were piracing music just because it was....
cheap. Now they're doing it because it's against record company
capitalist pigs. (Ok, a little exaggeration here, but hey, I couldn't
resist it... ;) Napster may close its doors in the future, but that
won't stop this new piracy culture.
Somebody forgot at some point, that most of the people are willing to
pay small amounts of money for the downloads. I'd like to pay for the
good tunes, if there was an easy way to do it. (I can't have a credit
card (a note in my credit information), and I wouldn't want to get a
credit card even if I could get one.)
What would've happened if the record companies and Napster would've
made some collaboration, from the very start? Napster Inc. isn't
making its proggy just for fun or for destroying RIAA. Napster is a
traditional _company_. They should make money somehow, at some
point....
Or maybe I just don't understand this weird new media economy.... ;)
>And of course there's the (probably ghostwritten)
>speech that Courtney Love gave.
Anyway, that was a good speech.
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