[avenir]

"Napster has ruined the music industry..."

Bull.

Napster was a happening, a realignment of the status quo. Failure to accept this and adapt to it have "ruined" the nice little empire the music industry was running, on THEIR terms.

They can get by with less, just like you and I do.

[sinkspur]

They can get by with less, just like you and I do.

What is it about "you don't have a right to someone else's property" don't you understand?

I don't care what people in the music industry make. YOU don't have a right to take what they sell, for free.

[Taliesan]

Napster was a happening, a realignment of the status quo.

Napster was the cyber equivalent of the LA riots. Mob psychology is nothing new. Suddenly, everyone was aggrieved, and had a right to walk through someone else's storefront and carry out the neat stuff.

The mob thinks that one thief is a criminal, but a zillion thieves is "a realignment of the status quo."

Sure, and the army of the people has a right to stable their horses in the cathedral. To the ramparts. Etc.