Ahem... IU *had* a ban on napster. I think this is the URL
http://www.savenapster.com/ that Sibyl mentions.
interesting site, although I don't quite share the author's taste in music
My take on mp3 piracy is this:
If I like and respect the artist enough, I will buy the released vinyl
complete with cover art, white sleeves, plastic wrapping, new record scent,
etc. I am predisposed to imagine that most people would feel the same
towards honoring their favorite artists and buy the cd. And we all make
higher quality choices than by being able to preview the album. We have the
luxury of thinking to ourselves, "am I going to listen to this two years
from now?" So by evolutionary terms, this change shifts the financial
rewards for a musician such that the returns from classic, enduring music
will gain relative to the loss taken by artists who focus on transient hits.
The crap to quality ratio improves for *hardcopy*. Questions such as
whether D'Angelo's album is a classic become even more emphatic. (I own the
vinyl btw). I don't think Metallica has a case, legally or morally.
According to the drummer, Lars Ulrich, "We take our craft - whether it be
the music, the lyrics, or the photos and artwork - very seriously, as do
most artists,.. It is therefore sickening to know that our art is being
traded like a commodity rather than the art that it is."
What a lie. He didn't mind when it was *in deed* commodified by whatever
label they signed to.
pardon the rant,
Adario
-----Original Message-----
Aaron -
IU had reached an agreement with napster which would 'legalize' it
provided that it and various other web clients would be a low-priority for
the server. However that works. The napster boy and his posse were here
this week to talk about it, though I didn't/couldn't go. My supervisor
here at the digital library program keeps us all up to date on the whole
melodrama, including sending us all the url of the site devoted to getting
campuses to 'give us our napster back.'
-s-
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Manire, Aaron D wrote:
> Isn't that bizarre? IU has a ban on napster, too. Check out the article:
> http://www.idsnews.com/news/2000.04.14/campus/2000.04.14.metallica.html
>
> Paz,
> Adario
>
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