[2OOOll]

Napster was the best advertising indeed. There is no way to explore new music without buying a CD, then you can't return an open CD to the store when it sucks.
Instead of killing Napster RIAA should've made it legal to share lower quality music with bit-rates say 128 kbs or less and things would've been ok for everyone.

[FatherTorque]

What the RIAA should do is have the music houses set up servers and put their entire music collections on them available for download. You could buy single songs or entire CDs. Make the CD case artwork available as well.

Just think, being able to go to just a few sites and download any song you've ever heard.

One can embrace technology or let it run over them.

[AmishDude]

Napster was the best advertising indeed. There is no way to explore new music without buying a CD, then you can't return an open CD to the store when it sucks.

Just a nitpicky point. Radio has played that role in the past, and probably still does now.