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To: GraceZ who wrote (1820)	5/24/2003 6:42:02 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4912

grace, i was a heavy user of napster when it was viable....and i posted it at the time....i also posted at the time that i was more than willing to pay a fee per download, but apparently RIAA doesn't want my money <g> i agree with you, the bottleneck in file sharing sites makes them not worth the effort.....at the same time, i'm lazy and the last thing i want to do is go to the local best buy or musicaland and sift thru cd's.....or even amzn. i think i would be a serious "impulse" buyer of music online on a pay per download basis. i'm not going to fork over 15 to 20 bucks for a couple of songs on a cd either... think of the "oldies market"....i'm listening to queen right now...."another one bites the dust"...i might download that for my workout cds....but am i going to buy the queen cd? hell no. you might want to check out the computer learning thread for methods of avoiding spyware...mr. mark's posts in particular. i really do despise friggin' luddites in control of music distribution.... i'll buy dylan though <g> my first album was santana 1971...i wanted the long version of "black magic woman"....i'm listening to dmx cable right now....beach boys...."california girls" :)

To: GraceZ who wrote (1820)	5/24/2003 11:32:05 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4912

grace, speaking of kazaa.. sfgate.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (05-22) 16:34 PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Kazaa, the company behind a popular file-swapping Web site, said it will fold because it cannot afford to defend itself against copyright infringement charges brought by the major studios and labels. The Dutch company maintains it has not violated any copyright laws by enabling customers to copy and share music and movie files by computer. But Kazaa lawyers said Friday that the firm cannot afford to defend the charges. "Plaintiffs have engaged in Rambo-style litigation," Kazaa said in a court filing Friday, complaining that the studios and labels are using hardball legal tactics to squash it. The collapse of Kazaa, however, is not expected to slow trading activity on the company's network, one of the most popular file-sharing sites in the world. Kazaa said it has sold the network to another firm that the music and film industry has not sued yet. The Web site and the software behind it are now owned by a privately held firm called Sharman Networks, based in Vanuatu, an island in the Pacific. Lawyers for the seven major Hollywood studios and five major record companies and music publishers said Kazaa is playing a corporate "shell game" to dodge responsibility. They contend that Kazaa's two founders, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, continue to be involved in the operation of the Web site and made substantial money from the sale.