SEIV is being Pirated

[geoschmo]

I have to disagree with you here Puke. Napster in my mind is exactly the same thing as Warez. I won't disagree that the music industry or individual artists should do something like Napster to market their music, but they have every right to want Napster itself shut down.

Your claim that you only were using it to preview music that you were deciding whether or not to buy is irrelevant. The fact is Napster had no controls over whether a user bought an album later. Once the person downloaded the file, they couldn't care less. They were making money (throguh banner ads, etc.) off other people's work without their permission, plain and simple. And that's wrong.

Whether or not your intentions were ethical or honorable in sampling music is not the issue. The question is is it ethical for Napster to make the songs available. The answer to that has to be NO.

Whether it is a good idea or not for the Music industry to doing something like Napster is irrelevant. The fact is they haven't yet, and noone has the right to do it for them.

Geoschmo