The End Of Napster
May 20 '01
The Bottom Line The Napster Music Experience is over. The blocks are up and no popular music titles can be downloaded.
After all the predictions of hope and hate, Napster finally took the plunge. After many battles through court rooms and hearings Napster has finally put up the blocks. The huge 7,000 Gigabytes of downloadable music has downsized to about 400 Gigabytes since the blocks have been established. Sure there are other programs and companies out there but there is and will never be anything like Napster.
Napster has been the key to future and profit and the key to failure. The reason why the big music labels are concerned about Napster is the route that they think they are so smart. They think people will just download the music and not buy the CDs. They need to wake up though, not everyone has a CD burner or even a computer with an internet connection able to download multiple songs at fast speeds. Napster has been also unlocking doors to success and bringing life to many new artists. Ever wanted to see if a group was any good but didn't want to buy a whole CD, all you used to have to do was download a song but now you have to spend your hard earned money at the store to buy a CD that could really suck.
Napster used to be one of the biggest music trading programs in the world but now has been shut down. Napster as we know it is dead. You can't get music from top groups like Eminem, The Backstreet Boys, N*SYNC, Limp Bizkit, Brittany Spears, and many others. You can still get a few "dead" music titles but their music isn't the best.
Even with all the things going on with Napster, music file sharing is not fully dead. Illegal trades and web sites have been going on since the Mp3 first came to the world. Songs are easy to get off CDs even without a burner too so trading will never die, there will always be something going on.
What I wish would of happened to Napster was something a little more less sudden instead of me just getting on and finding out that I can't download any new songs. Perhaps maybe a price could be put on single files other than you just having to buy the whole CD. Or samples of each file. Why did the RIAA have to be so stubborn and not let the people enjoy music. They are getting enough money anyways and CDs still sell because of all the new groups and such. I bet it also costs a lot for the artists to actually record a CD.
What I thought Napster would do was get a better understanding of music to the people so that you wouldn't have to actually spend money. Napster could of gotten so much money from advertising but all they could manage was a CD Now banner. I'm not faulting just the RIAA, Napster itself is responsible too for this. They blew it also and I don't feel sorry for them in that fact. They only people who now suffer from this huge change is us, the people.
As an ending statement I would like to say that this might not help that many people in making a choice about Napster but I just thought that my feelings have to be posted on something. I had studied Napster for a long time now and I think that it has been a great service for the time it was alive. Now it is done and over with and not that much music is up for download anymore even though 7,000 members are usually on each time that you would check. As a note to the money greedy RIAA, I would like to say that they really blew your profit. Now boycotts are going on and CDs aren't being bought. I know how the world works and I think that both parties blew it. I must say there will be another Napster and it will go down also. Thanks for reading.
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Member: Michael Ruf
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