I confess, I am a Napster user. However, I am also
someone who has purchased a CD as a result of music I
heard on Napster - a CD I otherwise would definitely
not have bought. I also use it the same way I would
check out a CD from the library (both my university
library and the local public libraries lend CDs, and
videos, and other copyright material :o). If I'm
learning a new song, or if I have heard of something I
want to listen to once or twice, maybe because I want
to try before I buy, or maybe because I'm curious, or
because I want to broaden my musical horizons without
the enormous financial commitment purchasing that many
CDs with only one song I want to hear would entail, I
download it from Napster, listen to it for a limited
time, and then delete it - kind of like returning a CD
to the library when I'm done. If I really like it, and
the other songs on the original CD, I then buy it. I
don't understand why it should be legal to borrow
something from a library but not from the Internet...
And no, I have not burned a single CD of pirated music
:o). There ARE legal uses of Napster.
Jennifer
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