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What's Next for Napster...
Your very informative article on Napster, the music-file-sharing program [TECHNOLOGY, Oct. 2], drove home one critical point: Napster sends a clear-cut message to the recording industry and also sends a strong edict to the artists themselves. Gone are the days when the consumer was forced to purchase a 15-song album only to end up stuck with 14 mediocre tracks and one stellar one. As people pick and choose music by the song and not the album, recording artists will certainly feel the pressure to provide the consumer with an all-around quality product. One good song...
...spite of Napster founder Shawn Fanning's self-portrait as a poor, starving code renegade, the fact remains that his company is a well-financed corporate entity. If you take away the glamour of computer-era hype, what Fanning has done is not new: from the Tin Pan Alley days, businesspeople have sought to rip off artists for profit. But things have progressed. Song sharks used to be small-time hustlers; today they are glorified on the cover of TIME magazine. ERIC VINCENT Philadelphia...
...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...