Hey everyone, how's it going? I'm in California right now and I'm having loads of fun... yeah... it feels great to be away from that searing Arizona heat. I'm looking into creating a new message board which looks nicer and has a lot more stuff. Work on the webpage is going to be delayed (as usual =( ) because next semester looks to be a lot of work. Anyway, the main issue here is Napster. As you might already know, it is most probably going to be shut down at midnight on Friday. The issue here is how to keep it going... Well, there are many ways... first of all, there is a service called Napigator that's available and it lets you connect to other servers. There are also other services like GNutella, ScourExchange and iMesh that allow peer-to-peer connection. The recording industry may have won the battle, but for all purposes, it has lost the war. There is no way it can stop services like GNutella because unlike Napster, GNutella is de-centralized and there is in effect, nothing to shut down. Well... I'm assuming that it's going to be a while before the idiotic heads of record labels finally understand this. And as for Metallica, I've lost all respect for them... their "campaign" against Napster was nothing more than a publicity stunt. And Lars Ulrich can go to hell. Well, anyway, they pretty much destroyed themselves with Load and ReLoad... but oh well... I'm thinking that in a way, shutting Napster down will actually help this new technology... Alright then... time for me to go... cy'all later!
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