SWP Nice and Napster

national | miscellaneous | news report Saturday August 31, 2002 21:36 by uknown

Repost of previous article

SWP leaflet on Nice not bad but does not mention issues of concern to young people such as napster
by Napster is dead long live Napster Fri, Aug 30 2002, 11:59pm
SWP leaflet on Nice is not bad but does not mention issues of concern to young people such as napster

I read the SWP factsheet on the Nice referendum from a link on this newswire and was pleasently suprised to see that it was much better than I had expected it to be. It contained much less swp type jargon also than I had feared. But before I get slagged off by the indymedia masses or get taken off the wire! I have to point out its limitations also. Among the issues of concen to me and other young people was no mention of the heavy handed response of the US/EU to Napster and more recently to many of the clones of Napster and against peer to peer mp3 music trading generally.

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by Ray Sat, Aug 31 2002, 9:08am

This is a comment on an article, not an original article. Go to one of the articles that mentions the SWP anti-Nice factsheet, and use the 'add comments' feature.

just swim with the fishes
by Parabola Sat, Aug 31 2002, 9:46am

napster is dead end of story it sold out to all the big record labels, but who gives a shit the great thing about the net is open source projects. just download kazaa lite a hacked version of kazaa which has all the spyware left out and is much better than kazaa original or even napster. you can get it at http://www.kazaalite.com/ btw this isnt a major issue of concern when there are young children in the subcontinent sewing nike football's and hunting rats to keep there families alive is it?

Bloody hell Ray
by FECKED OFF Sat, Aug 31 2002, 12:13pm

Ray, you are doing a great job in general but you are turing into 'the general' - calm it down for fecks sake!!! or change your tune - but otherwise GOOD STUFF....

Music for da people!
by Ruairi Sat, Aug 31 2002, 12:17pm

I feel the crackdown on Napster and the like is very important and highly relevant to anti-capitalist causes.

It raises the issue of commodity/common resource control and music is yet another thing they've tried to steal control of.

We should all support the likes of Napster and it's successors and they are part of the reclaiming movement - reclaiming our streets, our communities, our souls and our music!

"ONE GOOD THING ABOUT MUSIC IS THAT WHEN IT HITS YOU, YOU FEEL ALRIGHT!"
Roberty Nesta Marley

what next?
by o so silly Sat, Aug 31 2002, 8:16pm

this post further shows how dumb this site has become because it is just a place to bash the SWP.

love them or hate them, it seems that all people do here is beat on the SWP.

who cares?