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Napster, as everyone knows, is one neat little program. It took a vexing problem--namely, that the record industry didn't want people to be able to download MP3's, so web users had to search clandestinely for them in the unreliable nooks and crannies of the Internet--and fixed it in an ingenious way. Napster created a service in which users bring their own MP3's together, ready to be indexed by Napster, and then share them with each other. No MP3 song has ever gone through one of the company's servers; instead, they're sent directly from...
...recognize, of course, that radio is a very different format from MP3: there's the music-on-demand aspect, for one, and there's the fact that MP3s are full recordings while to get a proper recording off radio requires immaculate timing as you hit the "record" button...
...Maybe it'll all be redundant. I met a record company executive who claims that what the music industry has planned for the future of recorded music will blow MP3 out of the water. (Although my BS meter was wavering between TRUTH and MORE HOT AIR THAN A RICHARD BRANSON BALLOON...
...dollars each to buy them from companies like Pegasus. But pattern pirates are on the loose on the Internet, and the middle-age crafts crowd has begun to demonstrate the same deeply held sense of entitlement felt by 17-year-old Limp Bizkit fans downloading free MP3 tunes. When Hedgepath challenged the piracy of one outfit, brazenly named PatternPiggies, the online postings in response were downright defiant. Shouted one user: "Ladies, this is war, and I'm out for blood...
This may not be as hard as it sounds. For one thing, it's a lot easier and more convenient to walk into a music store and buy a CD than it is to go on the Internet and master the technology of MP3 file exchange. Napster may be relatively easy to use, but the process of finding music on another person's computer, figuring out what it is, downloading the compressed file and turning it into playable music takes more patience than many think it's worth...