For Whom the Bell Tolls?
with the music industry. But I am very sure that the Internet will not become a competitor. It becomes more and more commercialized and this trend opens the doors for the music industry to step in and utilize the Internet for their own economic purposes.
"As we've seen yesterday, Napster will go offline sooner or later. Others will follow. The idea of the free Internet already belongs to history. The Internet will become one big global shopping mall, with a tiny fraction of free-wheeling web-sites only a few people are interested in.
"Commerce is here to stay, and everything else has to surrender. It's just like in real life: the globalization doesn't stop at your frontdoor. It's already entered your house."
- Eberhard Wenzel - Rock
"I'm for the free distribution of music on the Internet. Instead of fighting sites like Napster, labels should be on their knees kissing their feet because these sites promote labels artists for free. as a result, record stores are making more money now than ever. Sites like Napster strike interest. I predict CD sales will go down when Napster closes."In the future record labels will be extinct. Why would an artist sign a deal with a label and only get a few points per CD in royalties, when he/she could go to a site such as mp3.com and get 50% for all CDs sold?"
- S. Scarbriel - Hip Hop Music and Culture
"To Napster and music I've learned two lessons from the Internet that share the same roots as the current dialogue... both in the courts and outside."If you drive something underground it will flourish in the underworld, a whole surfing society will undertake that task as a challenge.
"Once a technology is invented it cannot be suppressed completely. It will be used, by both Industry against the wishes of the people, and by the people against the best efforts of Industry.
"Music now joins up with software in the war of rights to intellectual property versus piracy. The "playing field" now gets bigger and so will the number of Band-Aid solutions.
"What cannot be beaten has to be lived with and ideally an accommodation reached if possible. It hasn't been achieved with software... Warez abounds on the Web and the same will happen with music files. Morality doesn't seem to enter into it... the numbers of people in either camp are
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