Artist who supports Napster...

[Matt]

...because Sony refuses to pay him royalties anyway.

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/23/copyright/index.html

[Sckott]

'The United States Of America' (Columbia/Sony) is actually quite an influencial early-daze Psyche album. Fact that he's not getting dollar one is enough to make this sound like the industry is a worse bloodsucker than the greedy computer downloader.

Thanks for pointing this out.

[peterredtrumpet]

John Barlow, founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and lyricist for the Grateful Dead, generally supports the electronic distribution of music even though it could, in theory, cost him royalties. His thoughts:

http://members.aye.net/~hippie/barlow/jpb-nap.htm

Take it easy!
Peter

[Sckott]

I that article Peter@Trumpet pointed out - Hillarious:

(You gotta love Metallica. There were a pain in the *** to their
parents. Now they're going to be a pain in the *** to their kids.)