Napster Offers $1 Billion

1979 I buy an Tape/MC with a Band.
1984 I buy the same album on Vinyl/LP
1994 I buy the same album on CD
Shouldn't i have been able to swicth my MC for a LP my LP for a CD and only paying for the media? I mean, in 1979 i bought "the right" to the music?
If i in 1999 scratch my CD i have to pay full price for a new Unscratched CD..

This is the way the industri works. It's all about money and absolutely not about protecting artists.

If artists had the balls they would sell their own CD's on the web at half the price they cost in the stores and they would make twice as much money.
But they can't, because the stores and their label wouldn't support them anymore. No support=no radio play=noone knows who the fuck they are..

In the RIAA's terminology, a "legitimate" electronic music distribution system is no system at all. Those luddites in the RIAA all believe (rightly) that any encryption method, content control system, or secured payment system would eventually be cracked and violated. Unfortunately the public's infatuation with mp3 as a means to share music has ballooned out of the RIAA's control. Plus, there's now an mp3 encoder (LAME) that is open-source, meaning that anyone can compile it and use it; gone are the days of paying Fraunhofer IIS royalties for "their intellectual property".

To effectively stop music sharing, the RIAA would have to take down the entire Internet. In the future, it probably won't be some hacker attacking servers; it will be Big Brother.

"...I urge you to act accordingly. Stop the infringements..."


"...and please dont download gnutella, mynapster, irc, or use newsgroups..."

bahahaha
YOU CANT WIN RIAA

The RIAA can suck my left one and lick my rim dry.

anyone notice Rambus and Riaa both begin with the letter R, I smell somthing very fishy here. Rambus shutsdown the PC world by making RAM illegal without "first-born" licensing agreements enforced by the lowest bottom feeding layers money can buy and Riaa shutsdown the music industry the even lower bottom feeding lawyers... hmmm

Mr. President, weh just haffa finda R in lawyers... lawyeRs MR. PRESIDENT, I HAVE UNCOVER CONSPIRACY... LAWYERS ARE THE ROOT CAUSE kaboommmm

RIAAAMBUS Incorporated, LLC, PMRC
MEMO: ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!
SINCERELY,
TEH LEGAL EAGLES

If you download a song, the artist should get paid. Simple as that, albeit unrealistic.

The internet is making it seem like it's OK do partake of an artists work without payment. Wrong. The internet makes it's EASY, that's all.

1 biliion????????!

RIP Napster.

went out like a whore.

http://www.gnutella.com/

WHOA...WIERD

this is exactly why i have thinkgeek's anti-riaa sticker on the front of my box.

nooo.. god... I am Napster's bitch. If you take it away, you'll be putting a little helpless Asian homeless on the streets.

If they accept this deal, it will just cause a witch hunt for everyone that has a mp3 in their possession. It also will screw a lot of other companies that make mp3 related software, force them to make changes to their programs to suit the RIAA.

By offering a deal like this, they hurt every artist that is using the net to self promote themselves. They hurt sites like mp3.com and others that encourage self promotion.

The RIAA and all record companies are threatened by the net. They see artist getting 100% of the profits and they don't like it.

I don't give a flying fuck about what Napster was letting people do, it was the attention that they brought to the whole mp3 scene and digital audio and self promoting artists. Now all that is ruined with a deal like this.

Music Business

ha, Napster trying to buy off the record companies with a billion $$$ of Monopoly-play-money they could never hope to make off their subscription service. they must think the people they're ripping off are pretty dumb.

Where's Fredreich Neechee?

The year two thousand:
DeCSS. Napster.
All your base are free.

And now, Maya Angelou for Napster:
----------
Ah, Napster.
How shall I thank thee for letting me steal so easily?
I pluck thy fertile musical bush daily, you see.
Recording Industry Association of America
Pish-Posh I say.
You don't want to help your employees,
You simply shiver at the thought of musical bushes.
Napster Services Incorporated,
I solute your devoted ignorance to one's conscience.

Although, the question must be asked:
Does Satan listen to mp3s?
----------
This has been Maya Angelou for Napster.

I thought that Napster thing was dead already...

hmm, where the hell is napster going to find 1 billion dollars? They mustn't think that their user base will be so supportive of them once they start with the subscription model.

Hey Steve, Maarten, somebody: The "Comments~Flat~Dthread" is italics on the main page, but regular text on the comment pages. Dunno if you want to change that or not.

does this mean I'll get some bandwidth back TO GAME WITH!!!! damn napster leeches!!!


not that I've ever downloaded an mp3 or anything

RIAA just wants 100% control

im sure they would have no problem with Napster if they thought of it 1st, came up with it, and 100% control over the service.

#s 2 and 3,

* D E N I E D *

sweet fuck.

i'll take 5% thanks

Napster's goose is cooked.


Sincerely,

Marcus Allen
CBS Sports

Third Post?

2nd post!