And this spawned Content. Corporate distributors only see numbers, units, penetration, market share. To understand Content, you must ignore it. Pay attention only to containers. If you imagine there is something called Content, you won't like Napster.
Nobody buys content.
Real people pay money for music because it means something to them. Being a 'content provider' is prostitution work that devalues our art and doesn't satisfy our spirits. Artistic expression has to be provocative. Napster doesn't distribute Content. Instead, it offers a voyeuristic look into OPM on OPHDs- a glimpse into the intimate specificity of other people's loves.