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...advice? Go to their website, download the free full version of "Original Gangster" and skip the rest unless you're a devoted fan. You won't get in trouble for getting the Offspring's music for free, because they really don't care...
...unreleased live version of the song Ziggy Stardust gratis to anyone who buys his latest album, Bowie at the Beeb. How will he know that you bought the CD? When you play it in your computer with MusicMatch Jukebox 6.0, you're automatically asked if you'd like to download the free track. See, Bowie's looking...
...support could now be easily accessed online. In addition, Napster challenged the one-hit album marketing ploy. Surely one of the reasons that music industry executives were worried about Napster was that they were afraid that after hearing 'that hit song' on the radio, Napster users would go home, download the rest of the album, realize how awful and boring it was, and then refuse...
...first alternative, the record companies will individually put up their own competing subscription sites, which will be so disastrous for everyone that the record companies will look to today's digital music anarchy with nostalgia. Not only would users have to subscribe (at a similar cost) to five major download sites, but to download a track, say, a new Moby single, they'd have to first figure out which label Moby is on, then register as a paying user at that label's download site. Hardly a good solution to the Napster problem...
Napster, as everyone knows, is one neat little program. It took a vexing problem--namely, that the record industry didn't want people to be able to download MP3's, so web users had to search clandestinely for them in the unreliable nooks and crannies of the Internet--and fixed it in an ingenious way. Napster created a service in which users bring their own MP3's together, ready to be indexed by Napster, and then share them with each other. No MP3 song has ever gone through one of the company's servers; instead, they're sent directly from...