Wow: Napster offers music industry 1billion for swapping rights...

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Spunky

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Sorry if this is off topic, I was not sure where to post about this. Just move it if need be.

This is pretty big news for anyone that downloads music I think. At least it is for me ;)

Napster has offered to pay the music industry $1 billion over 5 years for the rights to unlimited music swapping. (Wow!) That works out to $1.67/month/user with 50 million users.

Take a look at the full report on my web site, pretty big news.

Napster Report...
 
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Spunky

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No kidding. If the music industry was smart they would take this offer. Napster is not the only service out there and there is no way they can stop all of them because so many of them are starting to go open source and we all know what happens when you do that. IE: Linux.
 
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Leo V

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The inevitably high subscription prices (if the RIAA has their way) and resulting failure of Napster will probably bring one of these:

1) Draconian legislation to monitor practically everything on the Internet
2) Serious changes to copyright laws in favor of the user

I'm afraid the former will be tried relentlessly before the latter wins over.
 
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CAMS

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It may as well be $50 million/month to 1.67 users. Napster wont earn a Billion because once they start charging people will leave buy the bus load.

Any of these dick's even heard of napigator? Geeee's when are they going to understand they cant win this one.
 
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bacillus

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don't think the recording industry will think it's enough & besides they didn't like the napster concept in the first place!
 
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DJSnairdA

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I think it's funny at the music industries last minute sue spree to get napster shut down. I wonder if they realise how widespread music has become on computers, doesn't matter what they do, people will always have some sort of access to music. Whether that be at a LAN Bash or getting some from a friend, the music companies CAN'T win this war. They are so far behind it's not funny.
 
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extro

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The people who will subscribe to Napster will be very disappointed to find how the selection will shrink as the users who have to most files and do the least downloading and most uploading will not be joining them.

I have 1400 MP3's, most of them my own rips with EAC and LAME. I do very little downloading and must upload 10 files for every 1 I download when I'm on Napster or an Opennap server.

They expect me to pay to let people take from me at a 10:1 ratio? Ha! They should pay me for my bandwidth and the time spent making good MP3s.
 
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loosbrew

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im sure we will be hearing the RIAA sueing sony and plextor and iomega for selling "components that illegaly copies music" "enabling people to distrubute copyrighted music without permissoin" from his holy ass hole, Lars.

loosbrew
 
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gtd2000

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Why don't Napster just re-locate to Iraq :)
Or some other less "US friendly" zone that won't give a rats arse about the RIAA etc :)
 
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madthumbs

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Napster doesn't plan on charging all customers... just the ones who would like "premium service". The service we get now should remain free.

I don't see this offer as being a good deal. Offering the music industry that much money is like an admission of guilt. Also what about the artists that aren't a part of "the industry"? The industry simply should not have so much control over the music.
 
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jagr10

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Ok, why is SONY complaining? For the money they are supposedly losing, they are gaining back with sales from their blank cd's and cd recorders! I for one have NEVER bought an cd album in my life! Sure I have been given some cd's as gifts, but I have never bought a music cd! So what is the music industry losing from me? NOTHING! Tonnes of others have never bought music!
 
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hifimaster

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If they charged each user $5 they could pay off the man,right?

I would pay $5 a month to DL unlimited songs on napster.
 
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madthumbs

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I won't pay. Mp3's are

*inferior in quality
*not on a tangible medium
*can be found free
*can be corrupt
*affected by bandwidth
*lack a jewel case/ marketing
*have no resale value

I could go on. They simply aren't worth money.
 
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Leo V

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"If you rip a mp3 correctly they are just as good as a CD."

In the same sense that a high-quality JPEG is "as good as" the original--you can't tell them apart, that is. However, if you perform any further processing on the sound (to enhance it, for instance), the difference could become important. Lossy compression is NEVER as good as the real thing, by definition, even if you cannot discern it.

Two further reasons:
1) They will probably use 128kbps MP3's for bandwidth/popularity reasons, which are vastly inferior to CD.
2) They will probably "watermark" the copyrighted MP3's in compliance with SDMI, a further slight quality degradation.
 
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