If they had spend on a digital distribution sheme the money they spent against Napster and on stupid genial ideas against p2p,Kazaa and others would be today or very underground or would not have exist.
If they had put out cds with extra songs,mono\stereo version as they do now AFTER 15 YEARS AND TO MAKE YOU BUY THE CD AGAIN.So if they had put this kind of stuff instead of ADD cds sounding not better than cassettes at over-price,you may take care about what they say.
But..............
So ...............
Do not see downloading Sting songs on 128 kps mp3 as stealing.
You can steal a cd in a shop instead of paying it
You can steal a software instead of paying it
But you cannot steal something who is not in sale....
Allmost 10 years after the 'internet boom',right now in my chair in front of my computer,i can buy a house,a car,a ticket plane,book concerts,hotels,take an insurance ect. ect. ect.
But i cannot buy digital music!!! In digital age,i can buy yogourts from my super-market on line,but no music!!!!
No pity for idiots ,they get what they deserve.
I do not want to spend $18 on the last Sting cd.But i am ready to spend less -much less- on a mp3 version.
But none after so many years.
If,on the top of it you tell me that the last Sting is protected,in this case Kazaa gives me justice..
Anyway the very program at the heart of 'Fastrack' can work alone.
They can close Kazaa and the other programs using 'Fastrack',people having 'Fastrack" on they computer still have the p2p system and they can use it to share,Kazaa closed or not.
And there is a new generation of p2p allready here.
Anonymous connection and more.
I use Emusic since a long time.But i would not use it as a way to show labels start to move.
Emusic was started by the son of the foundator of Elektra.He,unlike the majors,understood what digital music can give to indee labels and musiciens .
he was know as a men of quality and had trust from many labels and artists.
When the 'full of air' universal monster came,his boos -the french- brought anything having a link with internet
Spent billions dollars who today are worth 100\150 times less.
Now they sell anything.If you can say who will be the boos of Emusic and mp3.com in one year,or less ,from today...tell me.
Universal needs money more than any of us here,so they put some albums on Emusic.Not bad ,i agree.
I'am sure that many people took 3 months at Emusic when they saw the universal stuff coming.Not new stuff,but good one.
Good to them they took only 3 months,because from the start and until today the project was\is to put 1000 albums on Emusic.Period
I still have to learn that they plan to put more
Anyway,i 'steal' i make all people around me to 'steal.
Not only mp3 but APE.
If i give sleepless to ir..something and madona ,sting and others i really feel that i did something of my poor life
$9,99 a cd on mp3 is a good raison to use p2p.
They have to put unllimited download at cheap price.One week,one month,3,6 months ,one year.
Numbers would make the money to them