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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Zoltan! who wrote (130828)3/8/2001 1:27:07 PM
From: DMaA  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
This is kind of a raw idea I've been pondering about Napster situation. Obviously needs some refining.

There is the obvious attraction of getting something for nothing for those using Napster and other technology. But I think there is a parallel vague idea that they are also SCREWING big media by doing it.

People understand at some level, maybe fuzzily, that a very few elites in Big Media make all the decisions on what's available in terms of current pop music. It really is a cultural hegemony.

I think the power and potential of the new technology is not that it's a cheap way for consumers to access Time Warner's catalog, but that it is a way for the CREATORS to break through the cultural dam that is Big Media.
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