Fans voice outrage about Napster ruling
The following are some letters from chatrooms following the Napster ruling:

Music Companies - No Lost Revenue From Me Stating that each dolwnloaded song is lost revenue is a false assumption on the part of the music industry. I for one wouldn't have purchased the song or CD anyway...

There will be hundreds of more ways to follow The RIAA has just sealed its coffin. Metallica is officially dead. http://www.geocities.com/perryfecteau/metallicacorp.html

I would expect I would expect that since there are already programs to link one computer to another over the internet and trade files , that they will just make an IM program for us all to identify each other, link up and continue to download mp3's. this will force the same bozoes to then have to file against the people..... like to see that .. thousands of suits...will keep that judge very busy .. hehe

Boycott buying music next week The street date for new releases is Tuesday. If everyone was to boycott major label releases for a week, we would see who is running scared and we would really see the politics behind Billboard's top 100 chart. Let us all boycott music chains for a week (small independant stores are far better and usually carry a good selection of independant labels so start going to them) and refuse to buy the music that they force upon us. Also go see some live music, that is where you really support the artists. Boycott those who sided with big brother and the corporations that really run this land.

Boycott Music CD's!!! Spread the word to everyone you know! Let's show the RIAA jerks what happens when they mess with the people! And let's show them what decreased sales REALLY LOOK LIKE!

Well, If CDs werent so over priced... Look at it this way, who is really getting screwed here? CDs - Cost LESS to make and manage, yet they are STILL more expensive than Tapes were. Hmmmmm...., I remember when CDs were first made available.. It was promised that the price would go down below the Tape level once it hit the main stream because they were cheaper.. Well? hmm.. Looks like someone is pocketing something extra - and I bet its not the artists.. Greed - It suck - And it looks like it may get you in the end.. haha

The RIAA has no idea what they're doing. I've decided that Lars Ulrich, the RIAA, and the rest of batch obviously have no idea what they're bringing on themselves. What do you think will happen when millions of Napster users are finally shut out? You'll have millions of people turning their eyes to Gnutella, and thousands of developers suddenly interested in writing clones for it. And if Freenet ever gets out the door, then they're REALLY up the creek without a paddle.

napster {dooom} I don't know. This completely shows how uncivilized a nation could prosper. Music is music no matter who makes it. People make music everyday. Live performances. Left wing swing to north. Sharing is a good thing. Hey "*artists*": Go on a show, live off the music, share with others. Music is being taken to higher level. rythym.

I had a friend tape a Metallica CD to tape for my car stereo. When should I expect to have the cops at my door,or better yet when are they going to stop selling recordable devices

Yeah...here's my response.... (use your imagination to see which finger I am holding up) I take BIG offense to the words "this paves the way for the future of online music".....that is total arrogance and pure fascism. This doesn't pave the way for anything but "business as usual" and the practice of extorting money from music fans. People would really like to have a choice in what they get to see and hear. People would really like to have some kind of influence on the price fixing and extortion that goes on. People would really like to believe that RIAA are all for artist's rights and fair compensation, but the record companies and countless legal corporations have a long track record of extorting artist's rights and making sure they never ever benefit from the art they created...ever... In short, the people on the other side of the Napster fence are just as much "liars, cheats, hijackers, devils and theives" as any of us who have downloaded free music from Napster. Unfortunately, the judge hasn't got the message, but then, the judge probably makes enough money to be able to afford expensive CDs, high-priced concert tickets and $3.00 downloads. Good luck to the "future of online music"

Here is my answer Mr Urlich. You want every penny from every fan, but you will get nothing ! Not from my pocket.

I have not bought cd,s in years except for a couple of new age artists. A few days ago I downloaded a Apollo 440 song off Napster, yesterday I went to Tower Records and bought the cd. I have spent several hundred dollars on cd's since using Napster. I wish everyone would boycott Metallica, and switch radio stations whenever they play music by this GREEDY band.

Upon hearing the comments from "artists" like Mr Ulrich, who claim that this alledged infringment is costing them income, then maybe it's time to sell the mansion and maybe drop the prices on those $50 concert t-shirts, huh? Meanwhile, artists who do not have the support and backing of the RCAA or a fat checkbook will lose their only source of mass-distribution in Napster. Regardless of the outcome, my support for bands that sue their fans (guess who, Mr Ulrich?!?!) has vanished, and I will truly never put another dollar or my hard-earned cash into their pockets, and the gold-lined pockets of the RCAA. I'll just go back to making cassette copies of my buddies CDs.... unless the RCAA wants to embed microchips into these too?!?! Maybe minidisc will finally come into play..... or Sony will include special "locks" which only allow you to play the disc twice?!

In the end, the music industry will most likely suffer from this facist move by the big corporations. And to Metallica, who claimed that they were losing income.... Shut the **** up ungreatful bastages. You all made more money than you can all handle. Is it my fault that you all spend all your money on worthless crap instead of saving it?

It is a sad day for the internet with the possible closure of Napster. But how can a judge in the USA stop the idea of Napster? How can a US judge dictate to the rest of the world what is allowed or not allowed on the internet? - What a laugh! - We, the music fans around the world have been paying far too much far too long for music. Especially here in Australia where a standard CD cost over US$19. How much of this goes to the artist? A very small protion! Of cause there are cost involved in production of CDs etc., but does this make up for the difference between what the artist gets and what we pay? NO there is a huge difference, a differance the record companies pockets and get very fat off. The time has come to expose this rip off and greed and there is no stopping evolution and right of humans to share.... The old world is dying and the new is being born.... LONG LIVE NAPSTER.

Napster will be back in some way or another. I am downloading as much as i can now. as for metallica, fu*k you lars. you will have to pay for this some day soon.

Well there's always Gnutella. But the Gnutella program does not tell you the bit rate of a song or the khz or the TRT(total running time) of a song. Just the total file size. I was wondering. Can't Napster just move it's company, it's servers and whatever to another country that does not have a copyright infringement agreement with the US and other countries? I think there are a few caribbean island nations that they can move to. And people around the world would still be able to access them anywhere. Thats if ISP's don't block access to Napster's foreign servers. Napster should leave the US and say to hell to the judges and attorneys that run this money hungry and corrupt nation.