Comments on: Napster: 10 today, had it survived http://www.p2pnet.net/story/22530 p2pnet.net - reader powered Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:33:53 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/22530/comment-page-1#comment-975158 Reader's Write Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:13:12 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/?p=22530#comment-975158 Hmmm As I recall during the Napster Age the music industry was into fan bans (Back Street Boys and INSYNC) which generally only appealed to a small audience and truthfully sucked. If they were financially strapped I believe the problem was due to product and not Napster. Just like Gateway and Dell, Gateways product slipped and Dell took over. Music fans didn't want to get ripped off and were using Napster as a "try it before you buy it" Just my 2 cents Hmmm
As I recall during the Napster Age the music industry was into fan bans (Back Street Boys and INSYNC) which generally only appealed to a small audience and truthfully sucked.
If they were financially strapped I believe the problem was due to product and not Napster.
Just like Gateway and Dell, Gateways product slipped and Dell took over.
Music fans didn’t want to get ripped off and were using Napster as a “try it before you buy it”

Just my 2 cents

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/22530/comment-page-1#comment-975156 Reader's Write Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:45:21 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/?p=22530#comment-975156 the tech chronicles article states "But the program, which quickly spread to millions of users around the world, caused more problems for the recording industry, which saw sales of CDs drop as people started downloading more free MP3 songs." Hm, could it be that this is some kind of history revisionism? If I remember correctly the statistics showed that the number of CD sales were on an all times high correlating with the times when napster was on its high times. (which would make sense since people could explore new music for free in low quality mp3 and buy the CDs afterwards) the tech chronicles article states
“But the program, which quickly spread to millions of users around the world, caused more problems for the recording industry, which saw sales of CDs drop as people started downloading more free MP3 songs.”

Hm, could it be that this is some kind of history revisionism?
If I remember correctly the statistics showed that the number of CD sales were on an all times high correlating with the times when napster was on its high times. (which would make sense since people could explore new music for free in low quality mp3 and buy the CDs afterwards)

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