napster is up and down upanddownupanddownupanddownupanddown… today. but it is not gone. <\/p>\n
\ni fear it will be, though. they ask us to press our congresspersons to support the movement, to express our napster-devotions to record companies, and to stay connected and keep napster running on our computers. the last i will do. hell, i religiously practiced the seti ‘distributed processing’ thing for a long time. and if i am going to be religious about it, the napster thing is much more a part of my world and closer to my heart than ET. \n<\/p>\n
but these things — persuit of hope and the love of song — are the politics of the muse and quite alien to politicians and businesses. indeed the muse is anathema to the music industry. so i fear for napster; shawn fanning<\/a> has become a don quixote<\/a> for me, and has revealed to me the beauty of his dulcinea, music. which, for some reason, i never really noticed before. i fear for the impossible dream. \n<\/p>\n \nyet, i hope<\/a>… \n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" napster is up and down upanddownupanddownupanddownupanddown… today. but it is not gone. i fear it will be, though. they ask us to press our congresspersons to support the movement, to express our napster-devotions to record companies, and to stay connected … Continue reading