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             from Canada on 2001-04-19 22:48 [#00003981]
        
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 | That is The Question. Id like people to do the following questions.
 
 1. whats your opinion on it?
 2. Hurt/help record sales?
 3. What does it do for upcoming/new artists.
 4. reach new people?
 
 Let me know. As this is a big topic these days.
 
 
 
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         | D-Hex
             from KC Missouri on 2001-04-19 23:11 [#00003982]
        
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 | It hurts big time musicians because most of them only have one song that everyone knows.  So instead of buying the
 whole brittany spears or eminem album, they can just
 download one song.  But for the musicians we are all fans
 of, it definately helps.  For instance, you guys let me in
 on boards of canada, and plaid.  I downloaded a couple of
 there songs, dug them, and now im ordering 2 cds of each.
 
 
 
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         | Ross
             from can. on 2001-04-19 23:59 [#00003986]
        
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 | i think it depends on the user.. i have so many mp3s but i have bought over 100 cds in the past two years (no joke)
 and i may get a couple tracks from a cd, but i usually
 purchase it at a point in the future..it also helps to get
 stuff thats very hard to get a hold of
 
 
 
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             from Canada on 2001-04-20 00:27 [#00003988]
        
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 | Well i agree with both of you really. I use it to get shit I cant normally...I have also bought many cds in the time I
 have had Napster on my computer.
 
 
 
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         | Ross
             from can. on 2001-04-20 00:53 [#00003990]
        
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 | yeah, and i mean the sales on cds have went up over the past year, so this napster taking money from cd sales stuff is
 lies!
 
 
 
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         | [REFLEX]
             from Canada on 2001-04-20 01:01 [#00003994]
        
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 | Ross: yeah see thats what I though too. I think its stupid as shit, to let the music companies "own" the music. I mean
 obvioulsy they do, but they shouldn't like they are... cause
 its just not fair to have them take control over the music
 we listen to. It should be for everyone, i think that
 eventually napster [or napster kind of programs] are going
 to be the wave of the future for music listening/sampling or
 what have you.. the record companies/groups that complain
 are just fucking babies and won't admit/change to the ways
 of the new. NAPSTER GO!
 
 
 
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         | Ross
             from can. on 2001-04-20 01:13 [#00003995]
        
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 | Yeah man..it's time we took something back..ive gave heaps of money to record labels, hmv charges me $25 + tax for
 basically anything electronic (so i go downtown and get it
 if i can) i wouldve never discovered so many bands i liked
 if it werent for napster..
 
 
 
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             from Canada on 2001-04-20 01:18 [#00003996]
        
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 | Ross: NO SHIT!.. ive been in Vancouver sooo many times. I know what its like for that shit there. Here in Edmonton, as
 you can guess its no Different. HMV charges like fucking 30
 dollars sometimes for certain cds. Which is BULLSHIT!. So I
 can use Napster, or go to Whyte Ave [its like "the strip"]
 and I can go to places like SOnix/Blackbird and shit which
 are local Cd shops.. used and new and shit. And its cheaper
 there.. and you can get bootlegs too. But over all i would
 have never found out about so many artists [which I have
 bought cds of] that I would have normally never ever heard
 in the first place!
 
 
 
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         | Quoth
             from Lincoln on 2001-04-20 01:54 [#00003999]
        
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 | I just think it's great there are people out there willing to share music so people can hear what they might not be
 able to if they were to the record store. It opened up
 listening to BoC, Autechre, and all of you unsigned people
 on aphextwin.nu... really cool stuff, all of it. If I could
 all buy it on some form of recording I'd do it.
 
 
 
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             from Canada on 2001-04-20 02:16 [#00004007]
        
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 | Yeah exactly I know what you mean... its all true! 
 
 
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         | 5is6
             from centeroftheultraworld on 2001-04-20 05:49 [#00004015]
        
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 | I say its lush to suck everyone and everything dry if your in the position to do so.  Its great to take things without
 paying for them.  Especially great music like The Aphex
 Twin's himself.  And food too.  I cant remember the last
 time I paid for a meal.  Heck, I'm stealing my cable
 connection thats allowing me to surf so radically through
 the net even as I speak.  And as for the bearded chipmunk
 making a buck off me, my motto: "I dont give a fuck because
 you dont give a shit." =>
 
 
 
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             from Canada on 2001-04-20 06:30 [#00004018]
        
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 | oohhh a little bit of everything here.. Well I mean sure I like shit to be free. and granted ive stolen in my life
 before.. lots. But not anymore... and yet i don't find
 NAPSTER to be stealing anyting. goddamn... I mean give me a
 break. Im not going to just NOT use it becuase iam
 potentionally ripping of an artist.. first off if they cared
 that much they would send in their name and shit to Napster
 and go through the process to make their songs unavailable..
 like have you ever typed in Dr. Dre lately? [i don't like
 him at all but hes soooooo popular on napster, same with
 eminem] you can't find shit! and before you could find
 EVERYTHING so easily. now there is nothing.. so if the
 artist themself cared enough they would go through the legal
 process of getting their songs off of there immediatly. If
 not whatever.. Im going to get your shit for free! And
 besides like Ive stated before along with many other avid
 AFX fans, I buy his stuff when Its there to buy at the local
 shops and such, until the cds are available in my city, and
 not priced at like 45 dollars a cd, then my friends, im on
 Napster. [ive bought a bunch of AFX stuff too]
 
 
 
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         |  nene
             from United States on 2003-07-19 15:34 [#00786427] Points: 1475 Status: Lurker
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 | isn't napster the greatest you guys!?! 
 
 
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         |  xceque
             on 2003-07-19 15:42 [#00786432] Points: 5888 Status: Moderator | Show recordbag
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 | I have to confess, some days a chilli dinner, an unwatched episode of stargate sg1 and  box of chocolate orange
 matchmakers beats most things.
 
 
 
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         |  Q4Z2X
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 | i think somone posted this before, but it is relevant
 
 
 
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         |  Anus_Presley
             on 2003-07-19 15:51 [#00786445] Points: 23472 Status: Lurker
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 | i miss it 
 
 
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         |  earthleakage
             from tell the world you're winning on 2003-07-19 18:32 [#00786697] Points: 27859 Status: Regular
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 | in what way do you miss it? tha fact that it wasnt p2p, the fact that it always crashed or the fact that any incomplete
 downloads had to be deleted? how far have we come in 2
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         |  Anus_Presley
             on 2003-07-19 18:33 [#00786699] Points: 23472 Status: Lurker
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 | i neverr had a computerr then. i just said it. 
 
 
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         |  Anus_Presley
             on 2003-07-19 18:34 [#00786701] Points: 23472 Status: Lurker
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 | no i did. i just said that. but i neverr used it. 
 
 
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         |  earthleakage
             from tell the world you're winning on 2003-07-19 18:40 [#00786721] Points: 27859 Status: Regular
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 | you didnt miss much 
 
 
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