Jim, re: Napster OT
Of course you must know that Napster...
Yes, and they have good reason to be concerned. I feel somewhat guilty getting material that belongs to someone else for free, even on an experimental basis.
There is a new program that runs on top of Napster called Wrapster. It allows the transmission of ANY files, not just MP3s.
Thats the really shocking part. Any intellectual property that can be digitized (software programs, movies, games, anything), once it is copied to one PC, has the potential to be free to all PC's within a matter of hours or days. Talk about disinflation. And I don't know if there is any way to stop it, as the property doesn't reside on a server, it almost instantly resides everywhere on the Internet. The individual PC's become the Internet, not the servers.
It could pretty much makes our intellectual property laws obsolete, and force a new economic model for collecting royalties. Interesting...
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