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Well, one of downfalls of Napster was the fact that it had centralized servers - almost as if Napster iteself was promoting the trading of this copyrighted material - courts didn't like that too well.. I wouldn't say that P2P applications were created to bypass the laws, because it doesn't matter how you look at it, it's still the illegal trading of copyright material whether you do it via centralized servers or via P2P.
As far as the quality goes, I've heard that it's horrible these days.. I've heard it takes a while to find worthwhile quality material on Kazaa, if it's found at all... There was a thread about Overpeer polluting the P2P networks with these .MP3's, I'll try to find the link for it - I can't seem to get a search to work on AO right now..
EDIT: I found it, here's the link:
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...&postid=601628
You make a good point about paying for FTP service.. I've heard several people say that they would rather use FTP than P2P applications anyday - they trusted FTP alot more. So I guess that might be something to consider for a potential Napster-like service - probably wouldn't happen though...
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I followed that thread, and I am aware of the degrading quality of mp3s on p2p. In all honesty I prefer to use p2p for software and not music. You see I am stuck in a thrid world country where you need an obscene income to get a credit card and debit cards don't exist. Also no one delivers here, so if I want software that I can't buy in local shops I need to download it illegally. :( Belive me If I could I would pay for it. Believe it or not I have to drive 350KM and cross a border just to get to a half decent CD shop. If I want to do some decent software / CD shopping I need to drive 450KM (once again into a different country), and stay in a hotel overnight otherwise I don't have time to shop because the borders close at 10PM.
Oh woe is me...
Anyway If it wasn't for the internet I would go mad!
Thank you for listening to my almost relevent rant :)
-GPF
