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Unfortunately, it just ain’t gonna happen. The album, currently available through KaZaa, retreads awfully familiar territory. Identifying individual songs that harken to Is This It seems pointless; the albums are so indistinguishable they could very well have been created in the same recording session. “The Way It Is” and opening track “What Ever Happened” crackle with the raw passion of their debut Modern Age EP, while live favorites “Meet Me in the Bathroom” and “You Talk Way Too Much?...
...cost, as the recording industry would have us believe, is the threat of litigation. According to The Boston Globe, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed suit against 261 individuals for downloading. Balance that against the Globe’s estimate of 60 million people worldwide who use Kazaa, or four million per day. 60 million divided by 261 equals virtually no chance that you’ll ever be sued. So you can breathe—and continue downloading—easily...
...would behoove legal sites to court consumers rather than to repel them with restrictions. Charge reasonable prices, make MP3’s compatible with all portable devices, offer a wider array of songs and artists, allow for unlimited burns, and consumers will be less likely to flee to Kazaa. But in return, we must face the inevitable: it’s time to start paying for our music again...
Jamie Partida is facing the music. Like many of her fellow music fans across the country, the University of Michigan senior visits the file-sharing website Kazaa and occasionally downloads a few songs free. The sports-management major, 21, knows it's wrong. "It's unfair to the artist because you're not paying for it," she admits. But the price of CDs is such that she never considered quitting. Until last week, that is, when hundreds of file-sharing consumers found themselves slammed with lawsuits from the recording industry. "Now I'm a bit scared," says Partida. "I know...
...source of artists' livelihoods - while at the same time, the technology for downloading music is advancing faster and faster. The conflict reached a peak recently when the Recording Industry Association of America's lawsuit targets included a 12-year-old girl who had downloaded several songs from the KaZaA media network. What do you think? How can the industry protect its copyrighted material, while still adapting to changing technology...