On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, David P. Harris wrote:

> I would comment that it is likely Napster actually increases CD sales.
> D

I rather highly doubt that.  I work with a lot of people who buy lots of
music, and have a son who's a CS major in college and lives inthe "geek
dorm".  A fair number of them no longer buy CDs at all, other than blank
CDR media.  Some do listen to tracks from Napster and then go buy the CD,
but it seems quite a bit less common than burning entire CDs straight from
downloaded tracks (or those ripped from classmates' CDs).

I discourage this practice, of course, when given the opportunity.

Dale
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