napster
Topic 76 · 10 responses · archived october 2000
~sprin5
Wed, May 3, 2000 (08:45)
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There's something new on the Internet music scene called Napster.
It's creating a storm of controversty.
It lets you share MP3 effortlessly, with any else that has Napster.
Will this kill the music industry or will it help the musicians cut out the middlemen?
~MarciaH
Sat, Jul 15, 2000 (00:02)
#1
I am downloading it as I write this. I am loading the computer because in another two weeks I will have a huge new system and this one goes to the bane of my existance....otherwise known as O'O
~sprin5
Tue, Jul 18, 2000 (17:21)
#2
Cool! What's the huge new system?
~MarciaH
Wed, Jul 19, 2000 (17:59)
#3
Systemax 700MHz Athlon processor
128MB RAM
17" monitor
Sony CD_RW drive
30GB hard drive
37 software programs including corel and Adobe photoshop and WP9
digital video camera
~wolf
Tue, Sep 26, 2000 (17:56)
#4
wow, marcia! corel and adobe photoshop! not to mention the camera!!!
ok. back to napster.....what is it, where do i get it?
~sprin5
Wed, Sep 27, 2000 (13:44)
#5
Does it have firewire, Marcia?
~MarciaH
Wed, Sep 27, 2000 (15:09)
#6
Terry, the stuff this 700MHz sucks in is amazing. I did dowload and share files on Napster - everything from the ZMoody Blues and Eric Clapton to Batuibak Anthems (I collect them) to Penn State (yeah, I know) stuff and calassical stuff. The fidelity knoxcks your socks off. Nothing sturrs my soul quite as deeply as a Welsh Men's Choir. However, JOhn Burnett and I had a discussion of the ethical rights to royalties on one's own creations, so I have ceased and desisted, though it broke my heart...
~MarciaH
Wed, Sep 27, 2000 (15:12)
#7
Wolfie they are www.napster.com
Ethical??? I am hanging somewhere in the middle on that one!
~MarciaH
Wed, Sep 27, 2000 (15:26)
#8
http://www.napster.com will get you there. Then hit the search button and dowload. several downloads later you will notice someone is uploading from your downloads. It is really a neat idea! However, I feel terrible about cheating the artists of their due. Record companies have long ago gotten their pounds of flesh!
~MarciaH
Mon, Oct 2, 2000 (18:10)
#9
~MarciaH
Mon, Oct 2, 2000 (18:13)
#10
http://fullcoverage.yahoo.com/fc/Tech/Digital_Music/
Napster Hearing Ends with No Decision
(Reuters) - High-tech upstart Napster Inc. faced off
against the giant U.S. recording industry in federal
appeals court Monday, submitting legal arguments in a
historic case to determine the future of copyright
protection in the Internet age. The three-judge panel of
the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco made no immediate
decision on a request by the Recording Industry Association of America
(RIAA) for a ban on Napster -- meaning the wildly popular Internet song
swap service can stay in business for at least the next few weeks.