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...Napster's Come Undone
Alex F. Rubalcava's editorial "The Day the Music Industry Died" regarding Napster (Op-Ed, Nov. 6) is not only confused and self-contradictory, but it entirely misses the substance of the digital music revolution that Napster brought to the Internet...
...music service were conspicuously absent, as was any sign of a standing-down by the other big labels. But that seems entirely appropriate - while everyone seems to agree that some alliance between Big Music and the Internet is an inevitable future, a business model has yet to emerge. Napster, apparently, will be the laboratory. "This is a call for the industry to wake up," said Middelhoff, adding that BMG "couldn't ignore" Napster's 38 million users. "They can't all be criminals...
...Maybe. But if they're merely cheap, Gnutella and FreeNet are still in business - as is Napster, pending the lawsuit's outcome. With his legal department looking on, Middelhoff figures Bertelsmann's getting a speculative stake in the online music revolution. But as mp3.com can tell you, taking the "r" out of "free" can drive users away faster than yelling "directed by Kevin Costner" in a crowded movie theater...
...right now, all he's really got so far is the lousy T-shirt 19-year-old Napster founder Shawn Fanning (wearing a suit) handed him at the press conference...