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shuki, if I were a recording artist, I would find other ways to make money from my music than depending upon internet downloading paysites like the new Napster to make me rich.
If people want to pay, then do it. I pay for music, but I won't pay for music on sites which don't allow me to do as I please with it. Before the internet and mp3's and all the new formats, we all shared music with our friends, and nobody took us to court.
I have found it faster and easier to download songs from the internet so I can listen to them on my computer than to take the very same music I own and install it on my system. That is what my friends do, and I'd like to see the courts handle a defendant who is doing just that. I see no crime.
There isn't one poster here who hasn't been pissed off at artists and record companies for ripping them off in the past. Sure, we weren't forced to buy over-priced music, but just the same, I love seeing the big companies rushing off to court to protect their interests. Recording artists and the buying public have gotten the shaft from the recording industry for years and years. Payback time is here.
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