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No sir, the music industry would have you believe that Napster is about stolen music, but in fact, many users have paid for the music they download, in my case I have paid for the music three times, to buy it on vinyl, tape and CD. I would even pay for it again. Sure, some people steal the music. But others don't. You might want to adjust your thinking accordingly. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...> To: "David Galbraith" <david@m...>; "xmldev" <xml-dev@x...> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 12:37 PM Subject: RE: power uses of XML vs. simple uses of XML > Napster has something a lot of people want: > stolen music. Fine, let's steal software > and put it on Napster too. Then only Intel > will have money. > > Napster while an interesting phenomenon is also one > of those famous flying machines next to > the great wall: guaranteed to make the > emperor react badly. As Chris Marrin > says, "don't open portals that lead to hell". > I hope that if XML developers choose to > do this kind of work, they also choose a > responsible application domain instead of > one that impoverishes artists by > inserting a different middle man into > the food chain and takes away what little > is left of the royalties once the expenses > are paid. Artists pay for EVERYTHING in > that system. This side > of the megaMegasuperstar, the average > salary is 45k for a successful recording > artist. Less if the album fails to go > platinum. > > Don't come back and tell me what CDs > cost to produce. I produce them and > know precisely what they cost. Find > out who gets the money. Then, if you > want to do something like this, make > direct deals with the content providers, > not the record labels. > > Len > > http://fly.hiwaay.net/~cbullard/lensongs.ram > > Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. > Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Galbraith [mailto:david@m...] > > Napster is a neat way to be a client and a server on the web, and is good > for exchanging files. Imagine the power if XML were used within a Napster > style environment to describe data and functions that could be shared. This > is something that Infraseach hinted at (using Gnutella for distributed > searching) before they went into 'stealth mode' after funding. It will be > interesting to see what they come up with. > > *************************************************************************** > This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. > To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev > List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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