RE: Napster

["Trainor, Kevin T." <Kevin.T.Trainor@norwest.com>]

Scott Dier wrote:
>On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Ron Parker wrote:
>
>> That said, our feeling is that everything that's bad for the major
>> recording labels is good. Without exception, not enough damage can be
done
> Keep in mind, in the situation I am in, it is limited shared network
> bandwidth and *not* the fact that the traffic might be illegal.
> 30% of an oc3c hurts.  alot. :)  Now that it has been turned off, I can
> actually surf the net at night from the dorm room.

I don't have a problem with Napster per se, but I do think it's damn
inconsiderate of people to be clogging the pipes with this stuff and
screwing up other peoples' access to the Net. Especially in a university
situation...there was a comment about this on /. from a sysadmin whose
network has essentially "timed out" access for anyone who pulls down more 
than 200MB of data through the pipe. I think that's a more reasonable
solution, myself, and makes the universities not look so much like allies
of the MPAA.

I don't know about the anti-copyright thing, though. I can see how 
musicians would do OK (as Chuck D pointed out, there's always concerts
and merchandise) but what about writers? Where will movies and TV programs
come from if the producers can't recover their investments because 
everyone's downloading the DVD file from pirate sites? 

Just my .02, 

Kevin Trainor
"Some people like to go out dancing
But other people like us, well we gotta work."
	--Lou Reed, "Sweet Jane"


...all opinions my own, not Norwest's (as if!)