Re:Oh dear (Score 1)

The subject he was trying to explain IMHO was that napster requires no personal links between people to share music, a musician such as this will perform and compose for the benefit of his fans and his own needs to retain fame/status. Many of the people replying to this topic will never have created anything that another person wishes to listen/read let alone copy, perhaps there is an inherent jealousy and as such satisfaction in depriving the owners of such of work from the appreciation show in a willingness to pay for it. Napster is not a brilliant file sharing client, it is good at finding mp3's though. The more serious sharing facilities, such as setting up a private gnutella network or direct connect , allow you in some cases to copy a persons entire music collection with full albums and usually a common bitrate. If you can find someone with similar or equally eclectic tastes and are able to copy their entire collection then a serious threat to the music industry will exist. Perhaps in 5 years time people will "own" collecions based entirelly on copies, nevar having purchased or benefited the orginal owners in any way