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Erik
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Date Posted: 11:35:22 01/29/03 Wed
In reply to:
Ron
's message, "Re: share ware" on 09:49:53 01/29/03 Wed
And to add to what Ron said, if you use Kazaa in particular, and you download music that someone else has shared, then you're also sharing that same music that you downloaded. There are ways to keep the files from being shared but you still downloaded it through a remote server somewhere and your download can be traced. How do you think they keep stats like how many downloads they've had or how many users are online at once? Once someone whether it be record companies, artists, or otherwise cracks down on those people that share music, there's going to be a lot of people paying for what they got.
I heard that Napster was sued to obtain the IP addresses and user info of everyone who downloaded copyrighted music when their service was still active. If that's correct, and that info is released there will be a lot of people getting charged for the music they downloaded. And I have a feeling that the numbers will be several billion dollars. I guess that all depends on how good the Napster lawyers are.
Being a computer geek myself, I wonder why one of the major software companies hasn't developed an audio file format that requires payment and registration on the machine it's been downloaded to before you can listen to it. It could be made into a standard format, and then have MP3 (or any other audio format) files banned from public servers. Seems like a simple solution to me that would make both software developers and the music industry happy. Users would be able to legally download the file, submit a payment via the internet, and unlock the file. Then you can burn to a CD or whatever you want to do with it, because it's been paid for.
Of course, if that happens, I want to see some cash for coming up with the idea... but anyway, those are my thoughts on the matter.
And Ron's right... music isn't really overpriced. If you're not willing to pay $15 for a CD, then you're probably not that big of a music fan.
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