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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/ ***************************************************************************
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