Word: napstering
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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...
...expect that Rubalcava would find it embarrasingly hard to explain how the music industry's death is heralded by "the German giant of the media world" snapping up Napster, and promising to drastically change the way that the file sharing agent works. Rubalcava's ridiculous claim amounts to heralding the death of the home health care industry on the occasion of CVS buying out your local mom-and-pop drug store...
Rubalcava and others who see Napster's continuance under the supervision of BMG as a victory for the Napster file-sharing community are displaying their ignorance of what made Napster great in the first place. Rubalcava correctly identifies Napster's primary innovation: the peer-to-peer file sharing model...
...Kozmo-ites an excuse never to leave their computers. It was cleverly designed to subvert the music industry's control over the distribution of music. Bands that the music industry's corporate elite had decided were not worthy of promotional 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...