I confess, I am a Napster user. However, I am also someone who has purchased a CD as a result of music I heard on Napster - a CD I otherwise would definitely not have bought. I also use it the same way I would check out a CD from the library (both my university library and the local public libraries lend CDs, and videos, and other copyright material :o). If I'm learning a new song, or if I have heard of something I want to listen to once or twice, maybe because I want to try before I buy, or maybe because I'm curious, or because I want to broaden my musical horizons without the enormous financial commitment purchasing that many CDs with only one song I want to hear would entail, I download it from Napster, listen to it for a limited time, and then delete it - kind of like returning a CD to the library when I'm done. If I really like it, and the other songs on the original CD, I then buy it. I don't understand why it should be legal to borrow something from a library but not from the Internet...
And no, I have not burned a single CD of pirated music :o). There ARE legal uses of Napster.
Jennifer
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