The sole reason behind anybody's discrepency with Napster is because there is a group, maybe even the majority its users abuse what it is capable of. They (they being college students and others with high-bandwidth connections [T1, cable modems & DSL]) are using Napster to download entire albums and put them on recordable CDs. They don't see this as wrong, merely because they can, "beat the system & get away with it." They don't feel it is a threat to the artists & that not enough people are doing it to affect
             sales. This is what the RIAA is targeting. But the problem herein lies in what people do with the technology. Napster provides the means but it's the people who infringe copyrights. If you look at it, a VCR can be Napster. Illegal copies can be made but is the VCR illegal? It's all in the eye of the beholder and from this eye, it's the people who the RIAA should be after, not Napster or
             The RIAA sees the negative effects and only the negative ones. They don't realize what Napster was designed for.
             In my humble opinion, there is nothing wrong with getting the album or selected songs for a trial period. How this works is simple; like it, buy it. If not, trash it. This doesn't have to be enforced but easily code be with an encoded encryption into each file. This has been how I have been operating since about 1998. Bare in mind this was before I had a cable modem (savior) and the advent of Napster. This was accomplished thru FTP sites. This took MUCH longer but I still abided by my code.
             Another benefit of Napster and MP3 altogether is for personal backup. If you listen to your purchases CDs often enough, they will get scratched and occasionally skip. For this reason as well as the possibility of losing the
             album, a backup isn't a bad idea at all. My.mp3.com simplifies this thru it's Beam-it software & web site. This is the process
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