> i wouldn't mind if my music was available on napster as long as it has a
> good distribution on vinyl or cd worldwide... most of the people who
> download from napster and don't buy the actuall record wouldn't buy it
> anyway....so maybe i miss a small percentage of royalties but i think this
> cannot compete with the promotion i get for free...
I agree. Personally, I use Napster for three reasons:
1. Listen to tracks and/or artists someone recommended and that I didn't
know before. When I like them I buy the CD. When I don't like them I
wouldn't have bought them anyway
2. Get my hand on tracks that aren't available. Either because the release
is out of print or hasn't made its way to Germany.
3. To find obscure stuff that I wouldn't ever buy, but I like to listen to
once in a while. This in mainly 80's nostalgia. This doesn't happen too
often.
I think most die-hard music fans use Napster for more or less the same
reasons. There are, however, people that try to get everything they can for
free. Those are the same people that download one software package after the
other, only to play with it for an hour or so and then remove it. And they
often say things like: "I won't ever spend $15 for a CD, because it costs $2
to produce them".
All in all it's a very sensitive topic, I think. To some extend I can
understand that people are afraid of losing tehei revenues. Ironically, the
people that complain the most are the most successful and richest artists.
Currently MP3s are somewhat behind CDs and Vinyl, in terms of handling and
(often) quality. I ask myself what happens when this gap has been closed.
Bye,
Jürgen
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