Why Make a Sequel of the Napster Wars? 280
6 writes "Cory Doctorow has an interesting article over at Information Week about Hollywood's strategy of suing sites such as YouTube. Says Doctorow: 'It's been eight years since Sean Fanning created Napster in his college dorm room. Eight years later, there isn't a single authorized music service that can compete with the original Napster. Record sales are down every year, and digital music sales aren't filling in the crater. The record industry has contracted to four companies, and it may soon be three if EMI can get regulatory permission to put itself on the block. The sue-'em-all-and-let-God-sort-'em-out plan was a flop in the box office, a flop in home video, and a flop overseas. So why is Hollywood shooting a remake?'"
Re:Napster, WTF? Hotline Servers (Score:5, Funny)
The original internet scene?
I'd actually began to mention BBSs and then erased it, because I figured if I start down that road, people are going to say, "Actually, it started with people copying each others punch cards."
No one can compete with FREE?? (Score:5, Funny)
You should teach an economics course or something!
Na[ster 2: Electric Boogaloo (Score:4, Funny)
you insensitive clod (Score:5, Funny)
you young whipper snappers and your pirate ragtime player piano paper scroll scene, you have it so easy today... YOU try hauling around 50 pounds of brass machinery under YOUR overcoat!
Re:you insensitive clod (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Well (Score:2, Funny)
And in other news (Score:2, Funny)
"I just thought it would be like their older stuff, given that they copped so much crap over 'St Anger'" said one internet user. "Turns out they suck even harder than before. Maybe they should all go back to rehab for good".
Lars Ulrich has responded in an internet blog written for him by his marketing team. "Lars, the two guitarists and that bass player dude would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused by downloading the new album illegally. We are trying to trace you IP addresses so we can sue you, so please download it a few more times each".
Torrent sites have since removed the links to the new album from complaints they have gotten from the internet masses.