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To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (159)	3/4/2001 11:36:11 PM
From: Ally	Read Replies (1) of 3937

I have a hard time trying to understand the business case supporting Napster. Comes along a boy genius that invents this software that allows millions of people to swap music... the major record labels of course want to terminate the operations... Napster, with no source of apparent revenue (no banners, no subscriptions) is prepared to pay billions to continue the "free" operations. OK, so its hope is that millions will still continue to use the service when it becomes legitimatized by the record labels... but isn't it a far stretch to hope that it'll ever earn a reasonable rate of return to its financial supporters? In the meantime, the record labels themselves are inventing their online versions to distribute music. In the meantime, too, Gnutella and others have even cleverer versions on how to swap music without a chance for the record labels to close them down. And so on and on... I would like to look inside the heads of the financial supporters of Napster and see how they figure they'll ever see a return on capital, if not a recovery of capital.

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