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um Actually napster didn't revolutionize anything it actually scared the music studios into becoming even more rampent beasts then they were and went into hyper protection mode...Napster single handedly pushed back the development of the music industry into the online arena for years.
Music studios were already feeling the bite of lower sales and many initiatives were in place to start developing more digital means for content transfer those initiatives were pulled back because of napster.
WilliamRLBaker
Eh any link to that? Napster pretty much set the P2P way of sharing music files. From then on file music sharing was never the same and it had a lot to say to the subsequent record company crysis.
any link to your claims that napster revolutionized the music industry? thought not. Napster used it it didn't set the standard *since the standard has changed* and the standard was already there All napster used was basically MIRC type file sending otherwise it set no standard.Here
The music industry would be in better shape now if it had engaged with Napster rather than fought it.
In the column, Mr Taylor expressed "regret" that the music industry did not move faster to work out how to use the net to promote and sell records.
He added that the music industry in 1999, when Napster debuted, would have struggled to create that business model because of rights issues, a lack of good copyright protection software and an inability to track downloads so that royalties were properly awarded.
The music industry took on Napster, said Mr Taylor, because the file-sharing system had no interest in developing the elements needed to turn it into a business.
Finally, he said, Napster's impact would be on more than just technology.
"The invention of Napster and all that has followed may soon deliver its greatest legacy - a renaissance in artistic creativity for the digital age," he said.
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