Many see the twilight hours before the injunction as a requiem and rallying cry for free online music. Wessell has been downloading three files at a time for a total of 157 songs in the past day. I have my friends doing the same at their homes. The goal is to be able to share some of the songs we like and haven't heard in a long time. There is no way they can stop us.
Information moves far too fast, and everyday there is some Web site out there.
Although the Napster injunction was issued in a courtroom in San Francisco, public appeal has been international. The Internet connects people around the world, but some say Napster in particular serves as a sort of musical diaspora that familiarizes people with faraway cultures or esoteric niches within their own cultures. Artists like Asian Dub Foundations, Passi, Khaled, Angelique Kidjo have little or no following in the States. These artists have little or no chance of getting radio airplay nor will their CDs be available in local stores. Pierre-Michel Fortin, a Francophone from Toronto, didn't want to take sides with Napster or with the record industry.