xml-dev - Re: power uses of XML vs. simple uses of XML

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

No sir, the music industry would have you believe that Napster is about
stolen music, but in fact, many users have paid for the music they download,
in my case I have paid for the music three times, to buy it on vinyl, tape
and CD. I would even pay for it again. Sure, some people steal the music.
But others don't. You might want to adjust your thinking accordingly. Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>
To: "David Galbraith" <david@moreover.com>; "xmldev" <xml-dev@xml.org>
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 12:37 PM
Subject: RE: power uses of XML vs. simple uses of XML


> Napster has something a lot of people want:
> stolen music.   Fine, let's steal software
> and put it on Napster too.  Then only Intel
> will have money.
>
> Napster while an interesting phenomenon is also one
> of those famous flying machines next to
> the great wall:  guaranteed to make the
> emperor react badly.  As Chris Marrin
> says, "don't open portals that lead to hell".
> I hope that if XML developers choose to
> do this kind of work, they also choose a
> responsible application domain instead of
> one that impoverishes artists by
> inserting a different middle man into
> the food chain and takes away what little
> is left of the royalties once the expenses
> are paid.  Artists pay for EVERYTHING in
> that system.    This side
> of the megaMegasuperstar, the average
> salary is 45k for a successful recording
> artist.  Less if the album fails to go
> platinum.
>
> Don't come back and tell me what CDs
> cost to produce.  I produce them and
> know precisely what they cost.  Find
> out who gets the money.  Then, if you
> want to do something like this, make
> direct deals with the content providers,
> not the record labels.
>
> Len
>
> http://fly.hiwaay.net/~cbullard/lensongs.ram
>
> Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
> Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Galbraith [mailto:david@moreover.com]
>
> Napster is a neat way to be a client and a server on the web, and is good
> for exchanging files. Imagine the power if XML were used within a Napster
> style environment to describe data and functions that could be shared.
This
> is something that Infraseach hinted at (using Gnutella for distributed
> searching) before they went into 'stealth mode' after funding. It will be
> interesting to see what they come up with.
>
>
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