Feelings on Napster?

Fpeel - you've recognized that the system allows for record companies to avoid fair market pricing and you act according to that recognition. All I suggested in my original post was that record companies recognize that the system will allow for electronic piracy and act accordingly. I personally think that excessive litigation is akin to the machine raging against us, with similar frusterating and trivial effects (for them). It will be interesting to see how it all shakes out. I admit that it takes a lot of money to record a quality pressing, but to paraphrase a poster in another thread, I'd rather listen to a horrible reproduction of great music than a great reproduction of horrible music. I guess I'm more of a music lover than an audiophile.

Me: I'm greedy and want great recorded music. Poor recordings hurt my ears and if the music isn't any good it won't get played. No, I want it all. We agree about "the machine raging against us" and that how all this shakes out will be interesting. The industry did recently get its collective hand slapped for price fixing, but it appears that's all it was. Now the table is turned and let's see if that works the other way or not. Thanks for the exchange.

a few thoughts - 1st, dekay, your comments about napster & the like spelling the death of new music was *exactly* the same argument that was made when cassettes 1st came out. the reality is that the advent of the cassette *spurred* the growth of the music industry. sure, some guys dint buy the commercial software, cuz they had it on prerecorded cassette, but lotsa guys did - for the better sound quality, liner notes, bought another album from the same artist, etc. i tink the same thing will happen in this instance - it's only the profesional pirateers, who hawk their wares on city street-corners, etc, that have any real negative impact on the music industry. and, that's not what the lawsuit against napster is about. as far as the cassette, btw, the riaa gets a royalty from *every* blank cassete sold now, thanks to their legal efforts. (ps - if ya like the buena-vista social club on cd, ewe should here it on *vinyl*!) legally, i tink robba_hmm sums it up correctly when he compares napster to smith & wesson: providing a legitimate product is *not* illegal, yust cuz there are some out there that may use it for illegal purposes. on another note, i find it a bit amusing that such strong rite-wing proponents like carl & grumpy have no qualms taking *illegal* adwantage of napster, not using it the way napster sez it's meant to be used. more'n a *bit* of hypocracy, no? ;~) re: socialists trying to get everyone to have the same walues, i guess it's yust the other side of the same coin; *conservatives* also have their *own* agenda for homogenizing the populace; it's not one i find too appealing. regards to all, doug

Sedond - Please do not tease me with vinyl. I have not heard Johnny Rivers "Live at the Whiskey" for fifteen years and do not wish to be reminded.

hi dekay, i guess yure right - some inwisible force *made* me play that johnny rivers stuff before i could cue up the buena vista social club; it was *awful*!!! ;~)