content : rant : .nap



napster, once an excellent network of copyrighted music, ahem, music, and all for free. people perferred it to buying bloated cds, and thus created a large user group, and everyone was happy.

then the little rich kid that Lars Ulich is (see lizzie grubman) complains that he cant get his daily hooker since his band's cd sales are dropping by about .0001% while his public status is rising like a wildfire. his first target, napster. his lawyer quickly called in the RIAA, and they took napster like some whore. thus we come to my subject of today's rant, the .nap format napster is developing.

i was just to the register where i've just found out of napster's own format, .nap is currently going to be implemented in their client/server mess. users will not be allowed to trade the mp3 format anymore, thanks to the these damn lawyers and the RIAA being the stubborn bastards that they are and not reading the statistics (which show that cd sales have increased since napster) and promoting the public interest.

the public interest must be listening to horrible, playmedia's crap of a audio format.

this format will be closed, so none of those l33t haXors can hide a good quality mp3 into this shell, will not be burnable to cd, so say goodbye to your cd mixes from napster, until the RIAA gets the point. which will probably be never. i'm still suprised that microsoft is having no say in this, setting aside the fact that WMA is an even worse format.

and, as an added bonus, this "public interest" .nap format will also feature technology for regulating copyright infringements, which gives the RIAA the puppetmaster's hand in controlling napster.

therefore, my final conclusion is that napster has become the poster child of the RIAA and the results of what will happen if the RIAA decides to interfere with anything that made some impact on society, and will act as so.

sean fanning (i think that's his name), get the hell out of that doomed company.




but then again, who cares if the public cant get the music they want in a decent format that they would have control of? i never really liked napster, and was always in favor of the more open-ended protocols, such as gnutella, or SX (which died)

end of crappy rant