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Letter to ZDNet News on Napster

by Jason Roth
 

To:	ZDNet News
Subject:	"Anti" Napster Article "No pirate's life for me" Click here to read the original article
Date:	3/5/01

You're against piracy?? This is the lamest attack on Napster (or Napster users) I've ever seen. I don't use Napster not because of the time it will take me to use, but because it is wrong. I don't make B.S. rationalizations about it either. Copyrighted music is not mine to take, or to share. I pay for the things I own, thank you.

The main reason Napster is so popular is because youth in this country are not taught by adults what private property means, or that music is a kind of property. In high school, I used to make copies of other people's music onto tape. My parents didn't give a flying you-know-what, so it was up to me to come to the conclusion that it is wrong. Adults have no excuse. Every defense of Napster (as it exists now, as a "free" service) is just a rationalization. And everybody knows it. If you want to "share" some music, then make your own and retain the rights to it. If you want to be some kind of Marxist idiot, feel free. But don't force other musicians to give up their work. Let them make that decision.

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