I don't know how many people here have ever read John C. Dvorak, but his latest commentary in PCMagazine is about Napster, and the perception that people downloading music = bad.
Anybody who wants to read it can find it
here.
I'll start you out...
Quote:
Here is the argument nobody wants to make and the reality nobody wants to face, especially those in the music business. As I write this, the Recording Industry Association of America is announcing another 532 John Doe lawsuits against peer-to-peer file sharers. The RIAA collects the IP addresses of alleged pirates, and with judicial approval, subpoenas ISPs to get the names and addresses of the defendants.
Copy protection schemes, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and lawsuits against file sharers are not going to save the music business. In fact, the opposite is true. I'm convinced that the shuttering of the original wide-open Napster almost four years ago was the beginning of the end for the recording industry. This is because Napster was not just an alternative distribution network; it was an alternative sampling system. |
02-28-2004, 11:22 PM
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