Now that Napster is in a deal with BMG, I'm seeing headlines like this: "Napster goes legit." But who would pay money for the chance to download mp3s using another customers bandwidth, when the song might not even match the title, and even if it does the encoding probably sucks, plus the host machine might disconnect you at any moment? Peer to peer only works because its free. That's the whole point. That's why people make these sacrifices to use Napster. If you pay money then you will expect some quality of service guarantees. And you can't provide that in a peer to peer network.
nyt pg 1 top left corner of the page. notes that the plan would be financed partly by bmg a bertlesman subsidary. Bertlesman is railed agains as a nazi fron by Dave Emeory conspirecy deconstructionist. Bertlesman owner of four major record companies has now dropped it's lawsuit against Nap.
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- jim 11-01-2000 4:04 pm
nyt pg 1 top left corner of the page. notes that the plan would be financed partly by bmg a bertlesman subsidary. Bertlesman is railed agains as a nazi fron by Dave Emeory conspirecy deconstructionist. Bertlesman owner of four major record companies has now dropped it's lawsuit against Nap.
- bill 11-01-2000 5:26 pm