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I´m just watching the whole development with interest.
Yes Napster does provide artists with some exposure, but more often than not it is the artists who already have exposure that lose sales (Anastasia lost about 300 000+ sales??!!) through this theft.
Which is what taking something for sale without paying is.
This issue is the artists choice. I have no prob with my own stuff going around and considered putting in on Napster, but that is my choice.
A similar scenario is hanging around to see a good busker and then walking away without tossing a thing.
"I don´t have to pay so why should I" If he/she´s good enough to stop for, and they entertain you, what is fifty cents?
There are positives in this, and some negatives. There are plenty of other sites that will pick up where Napster left off.
Hopefully the net will in turn provide a way for artists to produce music without the need for record companies that reduce an artists share of a disc to around 12% of wholesale price (less in the US).
As I said I´m watching this with interest.
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Where were Hamlet and Horatio when I needed them?
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