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  • Hmmm...did Napster lose?  Oh well.  I'll just download Limewire.

  • Your favorite band sucks, and you have terrible taste in movies.
Your favorite band sucks, and you have terrible taste in movies.
 #43080  by SineSwiper
 
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", Modern; text-align: left; '>Hmmm...did Napster lose? Oh well. I'll just download Limewire.</div>

 #43081  by Lee S.
 
<div style='font: 9pt arial, Modern; text-align: justify; '>Ugh. Now I have to resort to all these second-rate mp3 downloaders.</div>

 #43083  by Eric
 
<div style='font: 11pt Modern; text-align: left; '>At this point songs are filtered.....although I've still been able to find anything I want to download.</div>

 #43084  by SineSwiper
 
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", Modern; text-align: left; '>Actually, Limewire (the best Gnutella client out so far) is proving to be a promising P2P network for files. It's still needs a bit more work, but it's a helluva lot better than the Gnutella I saw only a few months ago.</div>
 #43087  by Tessian
 
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion, Modern; text-align: left; '>Damn RIAA hypocrites too. Stock up on Hard drives now people, they're trying to put shit on new ones to copyright their shit.</div>

 #43088  by Kupek
 
<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>They didn't have a choice. Don't pretend that you'd defy a court order.</div>

 #43089  by G-man Joe
 
<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS", Modern; text-align: left; '>Still works and it works great.</div>

 #43091  by SineSwiper
 
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", Modern; text-align: left; '>Ummm...can't they appeal?</div>

 #43093  by Lee S.
 
<div style='font: 9pt arial, Modern; text-align: justify; '>I thought they already tried that and it was rejected? I'm not sure. Haven't kept up with the news on this.</div>

 #43094  by G-man Joe
 
<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS", Modern; text-align: left; '>Correct.</div>

 #43096  by Sephy
 
<div style='font: 12pt "Times New Roman", Modern; text-align: left; '>Can't stand Gnutella..I use WinMX now.</div>

 #43104  by SineSwiper
 
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", Modern; text-align: left; '>I didn't think appeals could get rejected.</div>

 #43108  by S.Cody2
 
<div style='font: 10pt "Copperplate Gothic", Modern; text-align: left; '>I'm so sick of this accusatory 'sold out' tag. Gasp! A profit-based buisness? And they're trying to make money? NO!</div>

 #43109  by S.Cody2
 
<div style='font: 10pt "Copperplate Gothic", Modern; text-align: left; '>Oh yeah, in spades.</div>

 #43114  by SineSwiper
 
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", Modern; text-align: left; '>Napster sold out a long time ago.</div>

 #43116  by Ganath
 
<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Hehe... yeah, how DARE they try to make money in a CAPITALISTIC ECONOMY!?!?! The NERVE of them!</div>

 #43117  by Kupek
 
<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>And how did they sell out?</div>

 #43120  by SineSwiper
 
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", Modern; text-align: left; '>I dunno. I thought the whole point of Napster was to revolutionize the music industry by pirating copyrighted MP3s and therefore scoffing at our broken copyright system and our capitalistic economy.</div>

 #43121  by SineSwiper
 
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", Modern; text-align: left; '>By trying to profit off of copyrighted songs.</div>

 #43122  by Kupek
 
<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>As far as I know, they never had any sort of mechanism for turning a profit.</div>

 #43123  by Kupek
 
<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Napster was written because a kid thought it would be cool. It got popular because people could get free stuff. Any sort of revolution that would happen would be accidential, not purposeful.</div>

 #43124  by Ganath
 
<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Nope... Napster was made because using Napster is more convinient than searching websites.</div>

 #43134  by ManaMan
 
<div style='font: 12pt Helvetica, Modern; text-align: left; '>Shawn Fanning would laugh at you</div>

 #43138  by Eric
 
<div style='font: 11pt Modern; text-align: left; '>How exactly did they do that?</div>

 #43151  by G-man Joe
 
<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS", Modern; text-align: left; '>Like gnats. They can bug the court all year with appeals and they can easily get swatted aside.</div>

 #43206  by S.Cody2
 
<div style='font: 10pt "Copperplate Gothic", Modern; text-align: left; '>He looks like a retard.</div>