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To: SBHX who wrote (10303)	4/11/2000 8:43:00 PM
From: Binx Bolling	Respond to of 60323

You are doing the right thing by not sharing copyrighted info, but you don't understand the problem. Napster has not been shut down to date!

To: SBHX who wrote (10303)	4/11/2000 8:50:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Respond to of 60323

>>>>>>Songwriters and singers have to eat too. <<<<< Off-topic Most artists/musicians literally starve in order to "Make it." However these days, a lot of people feel they have a "Right" to "Screw over the Record Companies" and in their vengeance take food right out of the artist's mouths when they fianlly realize any amount of success. Regardless of how these Napster users think the $$$ money is divided between the Record companies and the artists, it is the artists who will hurt first. As music and other creative forms begin to suffer (from lower production value and hurredly produced, lower quality music), it is these morons who will be the first to complain about "how music sucks now." I firmly beleive that a lot of the Napster morons are disruntled people who are jealous of succesful artists, and are out for revenge.

To: SBHX who wrote (10303)	4/12/2000 8:34:00 AM
From: Tumbleweed	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

Napster... All these sites that contain mp3 files open to copying for anyone will probably get shut down within days of being up Not true, because they are not 'sites' in the sense you mean. They are people's personal PCs that connect (usually with a transitory TCP address), may be on for a few hours, and then go away, and when they come back again, have a different address. Essentially they are untraceable and therefore unstoppable. Gnutella takes it even further by applying the same concept to the directories (with Napster there are a few specific directory servers that could be shut down) Songwriters and singers have to eat too. True, but of course they only take a small percentage of the outrageous(IMHO) amount CD's are sold for. From what I read most musicians could sell their songs direct at $2 an album and make twice as much as they get now. The music industry will somehow have to accommodate the new situation, rather than force things back to the status quo.The cat is out of the bag and it isnt going back. Joe