Richard;
You make some *excellent* points, and you speak perceptively about the
future. This is why I'm so a d a m EMAIL souljazzant about this. We who are passionate about
the music... playing it, producing it, buying it, digging it.... have got to
stake out some territory here real quick, before the sharks figure out how
to corrupt it for their own ends, which *will* happen, eventually.
MP3 is no substitute for vinyl, but your average teeny-bopper is happy to
replace a free MP3 with an expensive CD, no doubt. Especially since they
don't mind hearing it over computer speakers. (Heck, the few things I
Napster are't really worth owning on CD, let alone vinyl, to me anyway! If I
didn't nap it, I wouldn't listen to it.)
But the quality is getting better. Browsing mp3's wouldn't be a hassle if it
took just a few seconds to get the whole song.
As bandwith gets greater and speed gets faster, (assuming that it will), the
internet, which is still in its stone-age infancy, will become more and more
powerful. Napster is just the beginning. It's a new reality. Who will get
the upper hand?
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