Music Today (Score 1)

Music has been around a long time and musicians have made a living for much longer than record labels have been around. How is it the business of playing music doesn't change for lets say the first four thousand years of our history, musicians are paid when they play their music. Then all of a sudden around 75 years ago musicians have no problem changing the way they do things, all you have to do is play it once and sit back and watch the money roll in. I bet New Kids on the Block are still making money from sales outside the USA (inside the US they're known as The Backstreet Boys). Now we live in a different time. Pirates do still exist but they do business different these days. Musicians need to get with the times. Napster invented file sharing like Al Gore invented the Internet.

So Okay, Napster can block Filenames. What I wanna know is what is next? What if they decided to get into the music business and started signing musicians? What if they got the quality musicians from the other labels to sign for them? Is there any better promotion on the Internet going on? How much did they offer the music companies to get off their backs? What if musicians could decide what songs they wanted to make free and available?
Or perhaps they should have made Napster an Ad-Ware program and funneled some of the profits to the record labels. All-Advantage has paid a lot of people to look at ads, am I to assume that Napster would have any problems getting advertisers to believe that their ads would be seen?

Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants,