================================================ Subject: Re: NCR - A great way for bands to give fans incentives to buy instead of download music From: "Creed - 7M3 - Live" To: Date: Tue 19 Jun 2001 20:44:40 -0400 ================================================ That is the same impression that I got from the name list.(prosecuting fans) Though I thought that a hacker got the list for the record cartel. Thanks for the explaination though. I still have the conception that they were willing to send thier fans to prison for listening and sharing thier music with others. Though, after the previous post awhile back talking about ripping the Creed, yet to be released DVD and making it available for download in PC format. I can understand the point of technology being a good, but a financially challenging medium. Jim ------------------------ Keith Mears wrote: > On the other side. Metallica was being portrayed as a greedy band that > >> would prosecute people for listening to thier music. So they were seen >> as a band not even worth the time to explore thier music. >> Sort of like the Offsprings stance on not making the album available for >> download directly. >> I never used Napster, so I really don't know how big of an impact that >> the availability of music to download was. I just thought it was "us" >> against "them". > > > And therein lies one of the biggest misconceptions of this whole situation. > Metallica did NOT go after their fans in the lawsuit against Napster. They > gave Napster a list of 300,000+ names of people who had illegally downloaded > any Metallica songs (here's the important part) AT NAPSTER'S REQUEST, > because Napster's CEO said they could not block access to the service > without names of subscribers. In essence, it was a stalling tactic, which > backfired BIG-TIME when Metallica actually produced the names. > Unfortunately (in my humble opinion) for Metallica, it also caused a > backlash against THEM because the great majority of those named also took it > to mean that the band was "after them". This is absolutely NOT TRUE, but it > is difficult, if not impossible, to convince these (former?) fans of that. > Hope that clears it up a > little.--------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Business is a good game -- lots of competition and minimum of rules. You keep score with money. -- Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp