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[dougal shaw]

either

'I think Napster's great', said Bono on an MTV video, 'popstars like myself 
are vastly overpaid'. What false magnaminity from the mouth of the jumped up 
Gaelic-rock millionaire. If he was unsuccessful, impoverished  and just 
starting out his views would be  the same as Lars Ulrich, the uber-Napster 
enemy. Intellectual property is a public good, that's why it was created, to 
create the conditions for diversity and individual endeavour and creativity 
to flourish. If
people don't get the reward and recognition for their artistic 
achievements(which means financial reward as well), the music won't happen. 
(except for purists like Belle and Sebastian, who don't mind keeping music 
amateur, and working part-time as Church Janitors a la Stuart - would like 
to see Bono doing that).

or

People will always have the same disposable income to spend on music, so
people will access more music through Napster and the record industry will 
get the same money into its coffers somehow. This is good. Also, people will 
still desire the object. In the late 1920's when folk music was first put to 
acetate, it was assumed nobody would buy the music  because it was 
there in the oral tradition around them. Until the Depression kicked in, 
shedloads (literally) of records were sold, because hicks, like all of us, 
are enamoured with the
physical object - thus commodity fetishism was born and the record industry 
baptised. Personally, I feel the same desire. I can't help buying CDs on 
sale, even when I know I've got the tracks on my hardrive. As for becoming 
offended when 'hoity-toity' (presumably this is an American term, like 
valley girl) people deign to like the same music in public, that's an awful 
attitude. It's like music is a religious sect and they are false-believers 
or something. There's nothing wrong with elitism in musical preference, but
everything wrong with intolerance.

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