Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: Napster Business Model

Author:Jacob Levy
Posted:6/26/2000; 4:02:30 PM
Topic:Napster Business Model
Msg #:18123 (In response to 18122)
Prev/Next:18122 / 18124

Napster does not facilitate *sale* of music. It facilitates *copying*, often unauthorized and illegal. Compare it to a service that gives you CD-RW drives and a way to fill those CD-RWs with all the music someone else has in their possession.

Question: if I own a record (let's say it got badly scratched) and you own the same record, do I have the legal right to take your record and make a copy on a casette tape? If I don't own said record, do I still have the right to copy your record to a casette tape?

Question: doesn't the RIAA have to prove that specific transfers over Napster's net are illegal, in order to support its claim that Napster facilitates piracy?

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