Therefore, she has issued a court order that the entire Napster service must be shut down. Some musicians indeed have brains and the foresight to take care of themselves. Frank Zappa, before his untimely death, managed to get control of all copyrights to his own music so his family would be provided for. The Grateful Dead was a popular band, but limited to basically a cult following, until they allowed people to tape their concerts and trade the tapes. Then they became a major financial force to be reckoned with.
Smart musicians love the Internet for precisely the same reasons.
Yes, we want our MTV, and we want to be able to tape it and watch it later. While you're at it, Judge Patel, shut down the U.S. Postal Service, because I happen to know that people send music tapes to each other illegally through that. Corp. All Rights Reserved.