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Re: As Napster Goes Vanilla, Aimster Faces Rocky Road
Posted by: ECT News 2001-06-08 18:27:17

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As the massive lawsuits have raged against Napster, few have kept a
close eye on the developments of Aimster, a virtual clone of Napster
that is built on similar technology. Aimster has everything to lose
or gain depending on the ultimate fate of its predecessor.

So, with Napster approaching agreement and/or compromise with the
RIAA and record companies, should Aimster assume that traditional
commerce reigns supreme, at the expense of upstarts? Or should
Aimster assume that new technology forced the hand of big business,
compelling the recording industry to step down from its comfortable
pedestal and make a peace treaty with the newcomers?

Re: As Napster Goes Vanilla, Aimster Faces Rocky Road
Posted by: DebbySmith 2001-07-05 22:12:18 In reply to: ECT News

The RIAA need to go after the big money makers not us small fry - This is just like the
beginning days of the cassette. The recording artists and recording companies were
all freaked out becasue we were all copying music on to cassettes in the late '70s
well de ja vu - here we are but with new technology and many more "friends" to share
our music with.

Back then, they upped the price of a cassette and gave a precentage to the music industry
- well - DAH - do the same here - go to the ISPs or the computer manufacturers and
get your money - don't try and get it from me or stop me from sharing files. THEY
ARE MY FREAKING FILES _ AND I WILL SHARE _ ONE WAY OR ANOTHER!!!!!!!!
GET WITH THE 21st. Century!

LEAVE NAPSTER ALONE - IF IT'S NOT THEM IT WILL JUST BE SOMENE ELSE.
THEY DID NOT INVENT OR CREATE THE INTERNET. HEY, WHY DON'T THEY GO
AFTER BILL GATES FOR MONEY - THAT WOULD MAKE MORE SENSE.

You never stopped anyone from copying mucic on to cassettes then, you'll not stop anyone
from sharing their music here - IT IS NOT THE RIAA's right to do that!

And to you, Metallica - I will never ever, as long as I live - spend one more penny on your music or anything you
have to sell. You bunch of greedy filthy rich CRY BABIES!

Re: As Napster Goes Vanilla, Aimster Faces Rocky Road
Posted by: zac 2001-06-13 17:11:21 In reply to: ECT News

I am for napster.

Re: As Napster Goes Vanilla, Aimster Faces Rocky Road
Posted by: Don Mezzer 2001-06-11 15:03:37 In reply to: ECT News

I have to disagree with the gist of this article. What the Napster case has shown me is simply that with an influx of venture capital Napster, rather than continuing to represent a challenge to big business, became big business itself and has to tow the line. Of course the courts dictated it this time, but the file-sharing which was brought into mainstream awareness by Napster has created a large group of file-sharers who have awakened to the abuses and arrogance of an industry that has fallen behind the times and will be revolutionized. I've never even heard of Aimster, but am aware of at least three other services, at least one of which is better and quicker than Napster ever was. Napster is dead in terms of what it once was. Napster's people are lying when they say that they haven't lost many users. File-sharing is here to stay and the record industry is still going to lose revenue to file-sharers. In my opinion, their only chance of curbing the problem is to price themselves competitively enough so that downloading an entire album for free isn't infinitely faster and considerably cheaper than acquiring it from the record industry.