# Napster's back

**URL:** <https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/napsters-back/4294>\
**Category:** RPGC Main Forum\
**Created:** [October 5, 2003, 7:02pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/napsters-back/4294 "2003-10-05T19:02:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ren](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/ren/32/58_2.png) [@Ren](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Ren)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 7:02pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/napsters-back/4294/1 "2003-10-05T19:02:10Z")

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Well, not yet, but it’ll be on Thursday.

Roxio bought Napster for some 5 mil last year. On Thursday they’re gonna start testing Napster 2.0. There’s gonna be some sort of big event in NY, with some 200 people from press & industries they invited.

You have to pay if you want to use the new Napster. The first one got to have 60 million users. But it was free, and the only one. Now that there are competitors and it’s not free anymore, I think they will be heroes if they get 10% of that.

That guy from Napster, something Oyster… Dammit I’m bad with names. Oyster said it’ll start with a catalogue of 500 thousand songs, and is confident that this new Napster is going to be “the strongest music service” or something like that of the internet. Haha. Kazaa, GNUtella, Morpheus etc. give all the same songs and more and do it for free =p

Good luck to these guys. Before being closed and sold they had already tried the same strategy and it was a crassian failure.

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**Author:** ![OmegaflareX](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/e9c0ed/32.png) [@OmegaflareX](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/OmegaflareX)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 7:17pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/napsters-back/4294/2 "2003-10-05T19:17:40Z")

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Except on the new Napster, you don’t run the chance of randomly being sued. 😛

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**Author:** ![Sephiroth\_Katana](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Sephiroth\_Katana](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Sephiroth_Katana)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 7:18pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/napsters-back/4294/3 "2003-10-05T19:18:26Z")

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Well, Apple’s pay-per-song thing seems to be a big hit, so I wouldn’t write the concept off from the start. If there’s a big selection of songs, and one can get them without worrying about having to wait for 50 people in a queue, being sued, or undergoing slow download times, people might just think that it’s worth the price.

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**Author:** ![Green\_Mage](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@Green\_Mage](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Green_Mage)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/napsters-back/4294/4 "2003-10-05T20:41:30Z")

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Not everyone wears eyepatches on the digital seas, Ren.

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**Author:** ![Susurrus](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Susurrus](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Susurrus)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 5:54am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/napsters-back/4294/5 "2003-10-06T05:54:04Z")

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You know the world is coming to the end when file sharing becomes a corporate buisness. That kinda disgraces the need for free music to the masses.

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**Author:** ![Wertigon](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/wertigon/32/1197_2.png) [@Wertigon](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Wertigon)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 6:30am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/napsters-back/4294/6 "2003-10-06T06:30:32Z")

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Good initiative - Once they get this rolling, well, one can only expect their network to grow right? 😉

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**Author:** ![BahamutXero](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/bahamutxero/32/55_2.png) [@BahamutXero](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/BahamutXero)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 6:40am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/napsters-back/4294/7 "2003-10-06T06:40:08Z")

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_Sighs_ Oh, that’s right I have to start my paper on downloading music soon. I still don’t see the point of it. Get off you lazy asses go to the damn store, and BUY the music. You wouldn’t have to worry about getting sued at all then.

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**Author:** ![Xael\_Sayhe](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/xael_sayhe/32/72_2.png) [@Xael\_Sayhe](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Xael_Sayhe)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 6:46am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/napsters-back/4294/8 "2003-10-06T06:46:50Z")

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Well, I would if I could get hold of ZOE 2nd Runner soundtracks here, or maybe some Kingdom Hearts soundtracks, but alas no.

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**Author:** ![BahamutXero](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/bahamutxero/32/55_2.png) [@BahamutXero](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/BahamutXero)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 6:49am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/napsters-back/4294/9 "2003-10-06T06:49:08Z")

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Well, I do make exceptions. If you cannot easily go to a store and find it, then Napster away. I did use it to find some old Zelda cartoons once.

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**Author:** ![deadtear](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@deadtear](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/deadtear)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 11:04am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/napsters-back/4294/10 "2003-10-06T11:04:41Z")

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I’m not gonna buy a cd just for one song I like nor am I gonna buy singles since that just strikes me as stupid. Kazaa and all the other free filesharing programs have done wonders for the amount of cds I own, and only 6 of those are burned and those are copies of cd’s my friend bought.(Led Zeppelin - How the West was Won 1-3 and also Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti and Led Zeppelin 3. ) I do have 1 mp3 cd, and that has about every song I’ve ever downloaded or had on a cd.The rest of the cds in my collection I’ve bought, and I’ve bought alot.  
Edit2-\> Like I said before, I dont buy cds just because I know I like one song on them. What I will do though is get a few songs off that album and see if they also rock and if they do, I go buy the cd. If they dont, I delete them because they suck.  
Edit3: Ach I forgot where I was going with this.  
Edit:Argh, I hit enter and it posted.

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**Author:** ![Xelopheris](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/b5a626/32.png) [@Xelopheris](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Xelopheris)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 11:06am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/napsters-back/4294/11 "2003-10-06T11:06:44Z")

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> Originally posted by BahamutXero   
> _Sighs_ Oh, that’s right I have to start my paper on downloading music soon. I still don’t see the point of it. Get off you lazy asses go to the damn store, and BUY the music. You wouldn’t have to worry about getting sued at all then.   
> If I like one song on a CD, I’d rather pay 2 bucks to download it than 20 to buy the CD with 15 other crappy songs on it.

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**Author:** ![BlueMageOne](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@BlueMageOne](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/BlueMageOne)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 11:19am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/napsters-back/4294/12 "2003-10-06T11:19:01Z")

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Oh yeah, Metalica threatened that if napster comes back again, they’ll release another album.

Personaly, I’d rather buy the CD, since you not only get the songs, but also the album cover (the art can sometimes be really cool).

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**Author:** ![Cala](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/e19adc/32.png) [@Cala](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Cala)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 11:21am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/napsters-back/4294/13 "2003-10-06T11:21:10Z")

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> Originally posted by Xelopheris   
> If I like one song on a CD, I’d rather pay 2 bucks to download it than 20 to buy the CD with 15 other crappy songs on it.

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**Author:** ![Kagato\_Toujou](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/kagato_toujou/32/37_2.png) [@Kagato\_Toujou](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Kagato_Toujou)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 11:54am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/napsters-back/4294/14 "2003-10-06T11:54:26Z")

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College = Lack of Money

CDs = Money

College + CD = No food for a week.

College + Ethernet + p2p = Music AND Food.

And I’M failing at Algebra…

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**Author:** ![Nulani](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/nulani/32/41_2.png) [@Nulani](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Nulani)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 2:42pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/napsters-back/4294/15 "2003-10-06T14:42:04Z")

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I think it’ll do nicely. It will snatch those who want to download music legally and don’t have a Macintosh.

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**Author:** ![BahamutXero](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/bahamutxero/32/55_2.png) [@BahamutXero](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/BahamutXero)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 3:02pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/napsters-back/4294/16 "2003-10-06T15:02:10Z")

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Oh, plese I think the “I only like one song on the CD” excuse is really lame. I suppose if you pay for it though, it’ll be alright. People you that on Kazaa should have a conscience though.

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**Author:** ![Ren](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/ren/32/58_2.png) [@Ren](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Ren)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 3:07pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/napsters-back/4294/17 "2003-10-06T15:07:29Z")

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Xero, the problem is exactly that. People download music at Kazaa because they can, simple as that. It’s not right doing so, but it can’t be stopped. It’s not like crimes IRL, which can be fought by the police. So we get this attitude that goes like “I know it’s wrong, but I won’t be caught, so…”

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**Author:** ![deadtear](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@deadtear](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/deadtear)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 3:13pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/napsters-back/4294/18 "2003-10-06T15:13:41Z")

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Oh please, I find the whole “I don’t get songs so I’m everyone’s voice of reason” thing really lame. I dont mind spending money, but I do have a problem with buying something thats gonna be a $15 coaster in a few days. Kazaa removes the waste of money on my part and keeps crappy “artists” from getting paid by me when I dont want to.  
Edit: But, like I said, I buy CDs that have at least a few songs on them I like.

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**Author:** ![BlueMageOne](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@BlueMageOne](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/BlueMageOne)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 3:15pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/napsters-back/4294/19 "2003-10-06T15:15:33Z")

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Its the songs you don’t like much on the album, that make the good songs truly good.

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**Author:** ![Ren](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/ren/32/58_2.png) [@Ren](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Ren)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/napsters-back/4294/20 "2003-10-06T15:26:01Z")

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> Originally posted by BlueMageOne   
> Its the songs you don’t like much on the album, that make the good songs truly good.

If that were true people would be downloading whole discs at a time instead of separate, carefully chosen single songs.

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