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To: ~digs who wrote (25435)	5/6/2000 8:12:00 PM
From: Silver_Bullet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57584

<OT> Napster is better alive than dead. I use Napster and very much like what it enables me to do, and that is preview music before I buy it. Music artists and industry should embrace it because it has increase sales, not cut into sales as is claimed. It's great having something on my computer to listen too but what do I do if I want to listen to it in my car, around the house or jogging. I BUY A CD, DVD or TAPE(do they still sell those?). They would be better off outlawing portable music players like what Lquid Audio sells so that someone has to buy a CD(to get the music away from the computer) than to stop Napster or MP3. Shania Twain just out sold Garth brook for the most album's sold by a country artist, and at a time when Napster is widely used. Don't tell me that you think she would have sold more without Napster. It has always been a problem for the consumer, wanting to hear, test drive, taste, touch or look at something before they buy it. Napster removes the "hear before you buy" problem and very convieniently. I don't have to go to a music store. I can down-load it any time day or night and I can search the whole world music instantly to try and find that one song I so desperately want to hear. And we all know that convienince drives inovation and sales. I just don't see how stopping Napster or MP3 will be benifical for anyone involved, except maybe the lawyers. Just my take, FT