Judge orders Napster to eliminate copyright songs.
March 6, 2001 10:34 AM Subscribe
That wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. Of course, if people liked it, and started loving unknown bands that were down with the GPL, I could see smarmy record company marketers tapping into it, making fake bands that are supposed to be unknowns...
posted by mathowie at 10:40 AM on March 6, 2001
posted by mikewas at 12:16 PM on March 6, 2001
Reminds me of the Catholic church dealing with the printing press.
posted by holgate at 12:42 PM on March 6, 2001
>a
>an
>the
>you
>girl
>rock
>love
>hurt
>day
>night
With this secret list, Napster can block 90% of the pop songs registered with the RIAA.
posted by dhartung at 3:31 PM on March 6, 2001
posted by Skot at 3:36 PM on March 6, 2001
posted by sonofsamiam at 3:42 PM on March 6, 2001
posted by frenetic at 4:41 PM on March 6, 2001
posted by Dooberville at 7:35 PM on March 6, 2001
posted by Potsy at 10:13 PM on March 6, 2001
posted by yupislyr at 5:25 AM on March 7, 2001
Anyone remember what happened to OLGA, the site for guitar tab transcriptions?
Yeah, but compared to Napster that was a very simple matter, since the Harry Fox Agency owns practically 100% of the sheet music rights in the US. One lawyer, one threat, bye bye.
All in all, though, I personally don't care that much if the RIAA types only go after the current or recurrent top songs/albums. I usually go to Napster to look for older 70s and 80s songs whenever they pop into my head, or for obscure songs that I heard elsewhere and liked. And the current top hits are what the IRC traders do best; when the rare decent song comes along I can just go there. (Though I do recall getting my copy of Olivia Newton-John's "Let Me Be There" from IRC as well, so maybe they have more to offer than I think.)
BTW, does anyone know at what bit rate an MP3 truly equals CD quality? I thought it was 192, since that's the highest rate I see used with regularity and it's also the rate at which I stop hearing truly obvious quality reductions. But I always see a smattering of higher numbers as well, usually 320. And that creates files almost twice as big as the 192's.
PS to Dan: You left out "sex."
posted by aaron at 12:50 PM on March 7, 2001
posted by darukaru at 1:28 PM on March 7, 2001
As for bitrates, I've been led to understand that the bitrate on standard, professional, uncompressed CD music is 1411Kbps. Anything that falls short of that is compressed in some way, so technically it can never equal so-called CD quality. But darukaru is probably right that audiophiles would prefer 320 but the avg. Joe is just fine with 192, 128, or even 96 in a pinch. I consider a portable MP3 player -- or downloading music over a modem<56K, such a pinch ....
posted by dhartung at 1:50 PM on March 7, 2001
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I can see it now. "Napster: Your Public Domain Song Resource!"
posted by hijinx at 10:35 AM on March 6, 2001