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[Zebulon Mysterioso]

>This whole debate is ludicrous. Napster provides exposure for new artists
>as long as you name is Metallica or Madonna or Korn or any other popular
>group who needs more exposure like a trapanation job.

Eh?
Napster is about complete illegality, ie, sharing MP3 files.
Anyone who's online with Napster can see the MP3's belonging to anyone else
who's online with Napster.

So if you search for your own band and find no matches.....nobody has your
MP3 files.  Simple as that.  Don't be shooting the messenger or anything.

There's a facility in the Napster front-end for looking at the MP3's on one
person's computer, surely this is where this "promoting new bands" nonsense
comes in - if you find that you're downloading a lot of MP3's from one
particular user, you look and see what else he/she's got, because you've
begun to share his/her taste...that's when you download artists you've never
heard of, and that's when you'll download his band's songs......

And of course Metallica are gonna have millions of references, it'll just
reflect their album sales, same with the BOC big three.

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