[Linux-Anyway] Re: Fwd: NYTimes.com Article: Online Fans Start to Pay the Piper


> NYTimes.com
>
> Online Fans Start to Pay the Piper
> September 25, 2002
> By NEIL STRAUSS
>
> Recently, more than a few music fans who were diehard advocates
> of swapping songs illegally through Napster and its clones have
> found themselves doing something they never would have predicted:
> subscribing to Internet services that abide by copyright laws and
> paying for the music they download.
>
> These fans once scoffed at the attempts by the record industry
> and others to create such subscription services, in which users
> pay monthly fees for access to large online music libraries. Now
> they are joining them.
>
> "I've been walking around for a month at least saying that I'm
> impressed by Rhapsody," said Ian Rogers, referring to a
> subscription service for which he pays $9.95 a month. Last year
> Mr. Rogers, an Internet and music consultant who has worked on
> both sides of the business (for the technology company Nullsoft
> and for the Beastie Boys), distributed on the Internet a scathing
> condemnation of the industry's subscription services.
>
> But recently he said: "The selection has finally reached a
> threshold I'm happy with, and the interface is good now. With
> other services before, there was a bad selection of songs, they
> were of bad quality, and they were hard to get to."
>
> Just six months ago, this sort of talk would have been
> unthinkable, downright apostasy, among those who consider the
> giant recording conglomerates the bane of free-wheeling musical
> access and innovation. Even those who have been won over are
> usually still skeptical of the power of the big corporations. And
> there are still plenty of fans who think the subscription sites
> are inferior, doomed to fail and maybe even intended to do so by
> their corporate sponsors.

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Hm... wonder why there is no mention of Winmx? Granted, I don't know if it
runs on linux under wine or win emulators... but it's very much like napster
was in the beginning.

Mercy

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