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Old February 5th, 2003
clueless
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That's quite alright.. I'm just hoping to attract attention while waiting for "the Officials".

Here in the US, corporations have pretty much ruined radio by the homogenization of playlists and increasing commercial time. If you wanted to find out about new music, the 'browse host' feature of Napster was a good way of doing that. I used to buy music CDs after sampling artists from Napster users that I never would have found by listening to the radiocrap they dish out here. But when the RIAA, in their 'infinite wisdom', shut down Napster, I stopped buying music. Perhaps not coincidentally, sales of prerecorded music fell through the floor right around that time, and the recording industry, in a state of denial, has continued to blame piracy ever since. Unfortunately, they just don't get it, and now are beginning to go after individual file sharers.
New technology I'd like to see: shielding of ip numbers so that they cannot be read from the network.
In the meantime, it's probably a good idea to use the programs available to gather and store any music you want to have, before the court system and the corporations partner against us once again.
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