Why the RIAA hates Napster

created by dmagoo

(idea) by dmagoo (4.8 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Thu Aug 03 2000 at 16:51:57

Simply put, the RIAA hates Napster because we are able to sample music before we buy it!
Before mp3s were easily obtained, many people would hear a few songs that they liked on the radio by a certain artist, and then pick up the album. This was great for the record companies because they only needed to put, at most, 3 good songs on any given album. People would blindly pay for more than 10 tracks that sucked. The RIAA is pissed off because they are no longer able to dupe us into buying crap!

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RIAA	Sympathy for the Record Industry	Shawn Fanning	Freedom of Information Act
You meant for this node to be read by me, and I would like to respond	File sharing: Usenet vs. P2P (peer to peer)	Recording Industry Association of America	Blindly
Napster	When you pirate MP3s, you're downloading communism	buy	demo
New York City	Gay	queer	Music
DMCA	crap

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