What's the big hullaballoo with Napster?

[Zoltar]

Napigator still works.

Besides, there's a whole bunch of other crapola going on.

Newsgroups for one.

File sharing that's sharing everything.

FTP.

It's not going to be stopped. Why bother?

 

[Shmorq]

Napster was the AOL of file sharing. As long as the majority of people don't use Napster, the record companies will feel safer. The people that do IRC, FTP, Newgroups, etc. are a small minority who aren't of concern.

 

He was making money off of advertising from the ads on his site that was used to trade illegal copies of music.
Pretty simple.
No one is disputing there are ways around it.
And if people don't stop boasting these ways and such, more restrictions will come in the future.
Keep it underground.

 

[JayPatel]

exactly....Napster was a easy way for the masses to get music..not everyone is familiar with using newsgroups and FTP's....

 

[Dofuss3000]

<< It's not going to be stopped. Why bother? >>



Just like MicroSoft,

 

[eakers]

<< Keep it underground >>



its too big hulla is too big for that now.

i have good memories of it.

its a shame that kid died there.

HAPPY HULLABALOO EVERYONE

heres a sucker, have a sticker; let me put it on your face

*kat. <-- sign her book?

 

[eakers]

sorry i see the word hullabaloo and something comes over me....

yay napster?

*kat. <--

 

[Shmorq]

And now, when something else as easy as Napster comes out, it'll be shutdown VERY quickly before it gets very big since the record companies will be much more aware.

 

[JellyBaby]

Yep, I think the ease-of-use factor frightened the riaa more than anything else. Piracy will always be with us but the thieves should have to work for their crumbs.

 

[Soybomb]

Peer to peer software with no central server server such as napster is essentially impossible to stop though. Users have gotten used to mp3s and will want more. If you shut them off via napster, they will go elsewhere and learn what they need to to get them.

The record industry should have embraced the technology and bought out napster or came to an agreement to make money off the situation. Instead they have fragmented a large user base that had excellent brand recognition, and created some rebel sentiment. Whoops.

 

[JellyBaby]

<< he record industry should have embraced the technology and bought out napster or came to an agreement to make money off the situation. >>

I agree they erred but the riaa is not microsoft. Buying napster out would have validated them and possibly even encouraged a copy-cat industry all wanting to be bought out, too. Who knows? As for not having foresight to see how PCs and the net would liberate music, well, they may have saw that but preferred denial. The cat's out of the bag now, though and probably for the better. The world will be better off without riaa control of all things musical.