Word: napsterized
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...Napster announced an agreement with German media giant Bertelsmann Tuesday, under which the music-sharing service will begin to charge its online members, funneling some of the profits to record companies and the artists that hold copyrights on the songs...
Bertelsmann's chief executive officer, Thomas Middelhoff, said his company agreed to lend Napster a substantial amount of money to help finance the transition, and, in turn, will receive an option to buy a part of the company...
...past 15 years, I've been trying to track down albums by relatively obscure 1980s bands to no avail. I'm generally met with blank stares or the usual "It's out of print." Napster technology has made it possible for me and thousands of others like me to finally have copies of this material. The record industry long ago declared these bands unprofitable; they stopped pressing their albums and did not release their work on CDs. Now the companies want to cry foul and claim we're stealing the music without paying for it. Hey, I would gladly shell...
Like many people our age, we have a large vinyl and tape collection, which, because of children, space, technology, etc., has been banished to the attic. Using Napster, we can once again listen to the music we already have on vinyl. We haven't downloaded anything we don't already own on vinyl or tape. Napster has saved us a lot of time and effort in switching to the new technology. MARSHALL AND KATHY LANDIS Baltimore...
...Using Napster is like inviting 100,000 friends over for Monday Night Football--not what the network intended, but not illegal. How can sharing music in this way be an instance of copyright infringement if the songs are used for noncommercial purposes? Perhaps Napster will eliminate money-driven junk music and encourage truly creative individuals to write and perform great music, regardless of their compensation. The whining record companies and recording artists should learn to embrace the technology or get out of the way. ROGER KRAEMER Brea, Calif...