Napster

[delker]

What do you think about the Napster and mp3 copyright issues taking place? Should Napster (www.napster.com) be shut down? Or will bands have to adapt to a new era of digital music?

[YoungBuck]

Shame on you Metallica and Dr. Dre :) . I think they will have to adapt. What is the difference between this and people recording songs off the radio onto a cassette tape or a CD. Pirating music has been around for a long time and the music industry still seems to be doing fine ($millions$ better than myself anyway).

[Zej]

I agree. No matter what they come out with, people are always going to find a way to pirate music. Might as well just let it be.

[delker]

I used to use Napster, at least until the university blocked it two weeks ago, and if it did anything for me, it persuaded me to buy a CD or two. (luckily not metallica or dre.) If played back to back, I can really tell a difference in quality between CD and mp3 too.

[SteveCRM]

The first hour I used napster I got 3 viruses. Grrrrr....I got the cure if anyone gets the same thing. If you want more info check out my post on "Help ODD MATRIX THING!"

[SteveCRM]

I guess Cd writers have upped piracy some. Now I can just download and copy.

I heard somthing like you can't pirate DVD's. Is this true?

[noone]

Well DVDs are encrypted but that can be broken. The main reason is because there are no DVD recorders available yet that will store an entire movie lenght DVD.

I like Napster. I heard that the sharing mp3 **** is illegal. But see, what would you say about cds? One person buys a cd for the full price. Others pay him/her a lot less to burn a cd for them. So, that's like cheating the artist out of selling so many copies of the original and making a lot of money, isn't it?

Where ever music technology goes, people will always find a way to pirate it.

[Cbomb]

I recently did a search for DVD warez (and many other keywords) just to see what was out there. What I found was quite astonishing. There were few hits from the search engine but they gave you about $500 worth of technology on DVDs. They provided the decrypted DVD file, the player, and a re-encrypt/write prog if you wanted to put it on a CD type format. Now, this may be hypocritical of me, but the DVD rip-offs are definitely wrong. The DVD encryption technology should but kept on their little chips in the players.

[noone]

Well the encryption used on DVD players is a joke. I believe it's only 5 bit. But the main reason it was cracked was because one company forgot to properly encrypt theirs.

So companies who make DVD players get let in the secret of the encryption?

[noone]

Yup, well the way I understand it each licensee gets its own key. And I believe every DVD has all the keys for the licensees in that area (not sure about that part)