Word: napstering
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...ZAPPING NAPSTER...
...Napster, the music-sharing service on the Internet, has exposed me to new bands, many of which interested me enough to buy their CDs [BUSINESS, July 31]. I hope Metallica and rapster Dr. Dre [who are suing Napster] are happy; they both just lost this fan. I will never again purchase anything recorded by them. ANDREW WALLACE Carmel Valley, Calif...
...Sara was particularly good). In addition, the site held a "Land Your Band" contest in which groups were rated by iCAST users, with the highest-rated act (the rock group Laughing Colors, based in Annapolis, Md.) winning meetings with major-label executives. "I kind of laugh at all this Napster stuff," says Laughing Colors lead singer Dave Tieff. "At our stage, offering free tracks makes sense. We're trying to get noticed, and promotions like this are a tool." Tieff says sales of the group's independently released CDs (available via the band's website) have risen more than...
...read that right, needlepoint patterns. The Los Angeles Times ran a piece last month about the "Napster-like" swapping of patterns online. Evidently, needlepoint enthusiasts scan their paper patterns into their computer and save the file to a common spot on the web. Fellow stitchers print out the file, a copyrighted pattern they normally would have bought in a store...
...rise of sharing copyrighted materials online is indicative of big business's failure to keep pace with the American consumer. Napster-esque sites are not a symptom of the moral decay of Americans. Big business, learn from what Napster has shown you: We, the American consumer, want to buy our goods on the Internet without a big hassle. We want lots of selection, not lots of logging in and user names. And we want it quickly, and at a fair price...