Napster Users Stop Buying Music Once They Figure Out Napster
from the so,-that's-how-Napster-works... dept
The latest Napster related study suggests that once Napster users get accustomed to Napster, they buy fewer CDs. Apparently it takes approximately 3 months for the common user of Napster to realize, "Hot damn, I don't need to buy music any more". Of course, they continue to visit online music sites - but just to find out about new artists. Then they head back over to Napster to download the songs. While other studies have shown that Napster does or does not increase music sales, this is the first I've seen that looks at Napster users over time. I'm sure the RIAA will love this study... Of course, I still don't think there's very much they'll be able to do about it.
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non-free-Napster...?
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lawsuit central
Seems like the architecture of napster, as mhh5 implies, opens the door to your hard-drive. I wonder if napster-facilitated-viruses or napster-facilitated-hacking could launch the next round of lawsuits as people who pay for this service also suffer the occational inconvenience of this security issue.
Bafore Napster made money, this might have been an issue, but they really didn't have money (aside from startup capital, and does that really count as money?) to pay damages.
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