Future of Napster

Who fucking cares. If you're true music fan you'll be the cd regardless because MP3 sounds like shit. MP3s are for people with their $5 140 Watt MultiMedia(!) speakers.

The other reason I hate Napster is how it's saturated most neighbour cable networks. Fucking script kiddies with their !Mp3HeAvEn triggers and visit my webpage with their 23 banners and get the 3rd letter of the 7th word of the 2nd paragraph from each banner link and you get the password to my FTP which is up at multiple.org port 666 and now Napster to make it worse.

Fuck you. I fucking hate you all.

Oh.. duh... RTFA!

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/19/ns-15380.html

They don't go into specifics, though. Of course, usually anything coming out of NME is utter horseshit. But, we'll see....

I just thought of something, Apache is just as guilty as Napster. Apache is used to share warez, porn, mp3s and all of our other favorite things. So Apache is just as guilty as Napster.

And so, in summation, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, what we have here today is not a young person who merely "made a mistake," as the defense weakly suggests. Young Mr. Hi-C was not merely "doing what everybody else was doing." Remember: the Nazis used that excuse. No, he was depriving artists -- the weakest members of any society, and also its conscience! -- depriving artists, who scrimp and save for years to live out their dream of making...a little beauty. And all to lift a smile on our tired faces at day's end with their song, or at least with an incredible boob job. He was depriving artists of their daily bread. Snatching it from their mouths! Using the Heimlich Maneuver to get at any they'd already swallowed! And if we are to strain credulity, he calls this harmless downloading. But how "harmless," in fact, was it! As we showed you in Item #237, the recording star M.C. Hammer was poised for a massive comeback just when the defendent used software capable of downloading all the hits of Mr. Hammer in a matter of minutes. The fact that the defendent testified that this was a "lark" to help him induce "feelings of existential dread and nausea" is irrelevant. We have it on the artist's own testimony that mere awareness of the existence of mp3 files of his album, "Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em," shattered any dream of regaining superstardom. I refer you to his testimony, page 38, line 12: "Was gonna hit it BIG again! Then THIS!" And so we are asking you to find the defendent guilty -- guilty of trampling on dreams, guilty of snuffing out imagination, guilty of producing hunger, and certainly guilty of provoking a reduction of .0008 % in Porsche sales around Los Angeles. There is no crime fouler, ladies and gentlemen, than picking the pocket of the minstrels and the fiddlers, the tunesmiths and the pickers, or even the merry tambourine tappers, whose pockets stink of patchouli and questionable hippy skank. To quote the legendary Barry Manilow, with whose stirring 1975 ode I am sure you are all familiar:

I write the songs that make
The whole world sing
I write the songs
I write the songs

Notice that he didn't say, as much as Mr. Hi-C wishes he might have, "I write the songs that you can rip at 128/44 and download for free if you have a fat pipe and absolutely no taste in music." With your decision to convict, you can help to ensure that there are Barry Manilows now and forever.

VC = vietcong?

I use Napster to share legal MP3s of my band. That's what Napster was intended for. So bite me.

I also took an illegal one, but I put it back!

Whoa... I just took another trip to the future... I'm back!

In the year 2184, your brainwaves are surveiled by the UN'et. If you so much as think about another persons intellectual property, the rightful owner is automatically credited from your state account. Additionally, if you don't have a license to view certain proprietary material, or you are found viewing objectionable material, you recieve electrical shocks as punishment and are promptly logged in the IP police's evil person database. Additionally, the pleasure centers of your brain are activated when you are shown advertisments, and images of your wonderful authoritarian world government.

...oooOO"My purpose in life is to be an obediant meat popsicle. I am happy. I am happy. I am happy. I am happy. I am happy. I am happy. I am.....*god... she's fuck'n hot* .... *ZAAAAP* ... ow.... I am happy. I am happy. I am happy."OOooo...


I have seen it! ... heh... :)

yeah, while we're at it let's get MS for Frontpage and IE5 (allowing me to publish and download), Netscape for Composer and Navigator (same reason), Opera, Mozilla, Linux, Sun (java version of gnutella), Scour, all computer manufacturers, all hardware manufacturers, all printer manufacturers, all CD makers (i got tired of typing manufac...aw hell probably spelled it wrong anyway :) Cable and Phone companies, most ISP's, AOL, all mp3 players, Cisco (they make the routers which make it all possible) and we should ban LAN parties (note the sarcasm, I love LAN parties). All of these have a hand in file sharing.

Now to |HAWkeye|, in name we are both hawkeye and to me you are the pseudo-hawk. However, we are both hawkeye at heart (that sounds lame to me for some reason) therefore we are both hawkeye and are equally deserving of the title. BTW, where did you get hawkeye from?

"And that's what we're trying to protect with our lawsuit. If music were free, there would still be music, there would still be bands, but the promotional money -- or as we call it in the business, the "we don't suck" money -- would dry up. And without that money, face it, you'd be lost. Without the magazine ads and the stand-ups and the elaborate 3-D record covers in the music store windows you'd have to rely on your own personal tastes to decide what music to download and listen to. And let's be honest, if that's what you were into you wouldn't be downloading Metallica albums. "


Let's see.. so they're admitting the only reason people buy their music is because millions of dollars is spent on marketing to shove their crap down the throats of the buying public... Gee, now that's a way to really win over some fans.. :-)

Whoa... I'm back from the future. Scary place. Orwell was right... Message follows:

In The Year 2084, all newborn babies are required by corporate law to be implanted with wireless pattern recognition sensors in their ear canals. When the unit intercepts (listens to) copyrighted intellectual property, the user is automatically and immediately debited the appropriate royalty per millisecond fee.

*Note: Retinal implants are now technically feasable and the MPAA will have passed a similar law the following year. No longer will a consumer be able to open his eyes without being charged for viewing another persons intellectual property. Let us rejoice my fellow UN citizens; in the knowledge that all is just and that every one of us is accountable both literally and figuratively.


Heheh... I'm just fuck'n around :-)

pfft it takes you 20 minutes to type 3 lines of text? sucka! :)

it only took me like 20 seconds. oh wait. uh... uh... i copied and pasted it! uh... uh... yeah! yeah! it took me like, uh... 2 seconds! :) hehe

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Bubba the car jacker:what ya in for kid?
mp3 inmate: downloading mp3's

mp3 inmate's poop-chute after visit from Bubba (_O_)

Change the channel then. Assface.

I cannot wait for widespread divx acceptance, then everyone will be copying movies left and right, and it will become quite easy to fond what I am looking for. Although, transfer speeds will have to increase dramatically for this to work, as most divx's weigh in at more than 500 megs.

Heh... as the Gnutella guys turn off the lights and pretend they're not home. :)

ahh i see coo, whenever i hear VC i think Vietnam i think it was too many war films as a kid.

b00la

BLOOD EVERYWHERE BLOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

I like how everyone is piping up with alternatives to Napster. I imagine the RIAA will eventually get sick of trying to shut down these "conduits", but still.... c'mon... isn't this the stuff that kinda got Napster fucked in the first place?

There's a disadvantage to sticking your head out when there are snipers.

117 they financed it or are just part of it? I'm still clueless as to how they get their money as their are no ads on their websites, no ads in their program etc. anyone got a link to info on how they make ANY money AT ALL?

b00la

117, heh.. ok you have permission to shoot me now.. then proceed to write "LAMER" across my forehead in permanent marker.

110, If masturbation were a crime, then we'd have that kind of situationn going.. :-)

Good thing it ain't!

I buy CD's for the cover art and because at 128kbps I can certainly tell the quality loss of mp3. At 160 and 192kbps it gets much tougher but 128 definetly is not gud. I think most people aren't like me though so if they can get the full album free and burn it they might just and accept the quality loss and the fact that you don't get rad ass cover art and their cd's stamped with cool designs.

b00la

I have mild tinnitus. Fortunately I only notice it at night when there's little sound. Good luck with the surgery.

Napster? "The Spirit of Radio" by Rush

Thanks!

-lbsn

Yea!!!

Who in their life has not downloaded a song, taped a song off the radio, bootlegged a concert, videotaped their favorite tv show, killed a few people and buried their bodies under the floorboards of your bedroom, pulling them up out of the crevices late at night to make sweet love to them... OOPS!!
Got to go..
Have a nice evening!!!

Like I'm gonna buy a Don Henley album just to listen to "Dirty Laundry". I got two words for Don Henley - Joe fuckin Walsh, okay? How long's your ponytail now, Don...

I'd just like to say thanks to all the guys who saved me from boredom while at school today. I'm gonzo.

hah! they should just make all of america one gigantic prison. who in their lifetime has NOT downloaded a song, recorded a concert, recorded a song played on the radio?

We find the defendant guilty your honor, we also find ourselves the jury guilty, we find your honor guilty, the prosecuting attorney guilty, the defending attorney guilty, the bailiff guilty, everyone in the press box guilty and everyone watching the televised court session guilty.

what a load of shit

b00la

Napster + acceptance of a RIAA "deal" would == More of the same inflated priced crap, with ~80%+ of the profit going to the RIAA (not the artists) so that the greedy fat cats can get fatter, and so that they can push (promote) more trendy crap that sells by virtue of something I like to call llama-readyness.

Don't get me wrong though, I'm all for a "legal," on-demand, cheap subscription/advertiser based service, where the artists get paid directly, not their bitchslapp'n pimps. And the promotion? The fans already do it pimpfree.

How much and which artists would get paid from the subscriber/ad supported community chest? No, not communist distribution. Rather, leave it up to the choice of the fans where their slice(s) go. The crap dies out, and the truely successful flourish. (maybe 10% could go to a recording fund)

Oh... and if you want you can still buy the "value added" CD (and other merchandise) directly from the artist.

(this hasn't been fully thought out... I'm just banging on my keyboard... therefore it's full of ifs ands ors and butt-holes)

This country cant even fight the war on drugs, this idea of mp3 users going to jail is too funny...

But I will say that the other night I finished downloading pretty much all the mp3s I will ever need anyway :-)

101,

yes, i am that pathetic.


wait a minute.... wtf am i saying here....
:P *runs*

97, what you gonna do? Close your eyes and pretend it's Britney or something...

hehe