Napster vs Offspring

For the record, I also have a 4.25 inch penis. Sad I know.

Regarding the story: Now that's funny!

All you Napster fanboys see how swiftly Napster reacted to this? :P

Anyone who labels Offspring as "Punk" is a fucking douche bag. That is a slap in the face to the real punk scene. The music is complete crap, especially their new "radio friendly hits". Plus the singers whine/voice makes me want to stick acid in my ears.

Offspring is "punk" music for the rich Orange County kids. Those who think that this is the hard shit and they are rebeling as they sip their Starbucks coffee and are hug a fucking tree with their hemp shoes on. hehehe

If you own a Offspring album you suck midget ass!

Drive thru please....

Finally someone standing up for Napster, and it turns out their music soulds like 5 cats getting run over by a steamroller. It's like getting endorsed by Ted Bundy. Of course Ted's dead now, so maybe it's not like that at all. eh fuck it, I gotta get some coffee.

quick poll to settle the napster argument once and for all:


how many legal mp3's have you downloaded using napster?

me = zero

Moo.

http://www.iqtest.com

it takes about 15 minutes.

I will post my IQ, wtf.

On the WAIS-R I am off the scale (which only goes to 150), but I took another test of which I cannot recall the exact name and scored 171.

Why am I posting this? Well to explain that I have elaborate a bit:

I found that score out years ago and I never tell anyone because:
A. Nobody would believe it.
B. I would get made fun of when I made mistakes.
C. Nobody really cares anyways.

I once told a friend at a former job and he promptly asked me what the square root of some impossibly huge number was. I just stared at him and he told me I was a liar.

So why am I posting it now? I dunno.
Because I don't give a shit, because I am kind of secretly proud of it and want to tell -someone-, Because this is The Shack, and whatever happens here doesnt fucking matter anyways.

Bah, The real reason is that as soon as everyone knows, I will instantly be elevated to godlike status (well more godlike) and the mere act of me taking a stance on a subject will be enough to quell any arguments to the contrary.

WTF is this Napster thing I keep reading about?

I'm with Freshview, although both he and CatTurd made valid and interesting points (thought I don't agree with mocking someone's beliefs CatTurd.)

The way I see it is this:

Napster will lose in the eyes of a judge because although they have a disclaimer saying thier software is not to be used illegally, they are in fact knowingly allowing users to commit a crime, and are not actively trying to disuade or even prevent such actions from taking place.

Even if Napster are not forced to cease providing thier service, they will be required to either a) police the traffic that thier software generates, or b) ban all users that are known to trade copyrighted material and cannot prove they own the original recording.

Of course either outcome will result in Napster being unable to continue because we all know that illegal mp3's account for a good 99% of all Napster traffic, and without that volume of traffic they will recieve no revenue.

-BH

I'm not going to read through all of the 200+ posts so far, so, if this has been mentioned already then just shoot me.

From the article and I quote:

"T-shirts... good," Holland then quipped in the announcement"

LOLOLOL I found this funny as hell as it being the last item of a serious press release. Looks like someone has been REALLY following the whole NAPSTER ordeal and has enjoyed the Metallica Flash movie.

Ph

I am well aware that I am probably the only person being entertained by what I am doing here. Thats fine with me though.

I might not be a good speler (or typer depending on which argument I choose), but I AM a genius.

One thing I -can- tell you is this, you my friend are not very bright. My statement that this would 'quell all arguments' was a joke. A joke, that your slothlike thought processes did not pick up.

Heh.

Seriously, who would write something like that and be serious? Jeff K?

Napster's only got one thing going for them: Visibility. Anyone can create a filesharing/searching app, but it takes a lot of bad press to get your name out there. :)

They're not going to "lose" anything. They'll eventually be transformed (pressured) into a good little company exploiting that illgotten userbase. That's a good thing.

Moa.

Damn, i dont have the magik spidergoat has.

I might not be a lawyer, but I am a genuis. The truth is obvious, there is no current law that could apply to this, because any law that applies to this also applies to web search engines.

Technically it is almost exactly the same except that Napster only indexes files that have an mp3 extension.

Of coarse the law doesn't always make sense, but this is just too clear cut.

Ok, lets put it this way. If you were going to put it in terms, WHAT precisely is Napster doing that is illegal?

Several things I would like to say that should quell any arguments.

#1 We have drive through liquor stores in Kansas (at least we have one in Pittsburg).

#2 Napster will not loose these lawsuits.

There is no legal ground by which Napster could loose this lawsuit.

There are very few technical differences between Napster and a Web search engine, and the differences that are there, are irrelevant.

True, the public at large sees them as breaking the law, but the public at large isn't going to be deciding the case.


What is the court going to do? Decide that index's are required to police the content they are refering to? Ahem. yeah, right.. excuse me while a few -small- companies (AOL, Yahoo, Excite, Altavista.. etc. etc.) bring their resources to bear on this.

Technically, Napster is a search engine and a file transfer protocol wrapped into one. Neither of which breaks the law.

OKAY Mr. Smartypants.

Dopeman

Wow, shit, we've got nothing remotely like drive-thru bars/liquor stores/whatever in Buffalo...
Don't know if that's a blessing or a curse... :)

Shut. Your face.

Dopeman
(Napster = Elian Gonzalez.. Just wait and see)

lol... "T-shirts... good!"

At least Offspring showed they're tuned in to this whole debate by making a reference to that Metallica flash animation. :)