Courtney Love on Napster

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri May 19 16:41:38 PDT 2000


[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review]

COURTNEY LOVE, DIGITAL HOLLYWOOD CONFERENCE: It's become quite fashionable lately for artists to express outrage at music piracy, and I'm a fashionable gal. Stealing artists' music without paying for it fairly is absolutely piracy, and I'm talking about major-label recording contracts, not Napster. Stealing our copyright provisions in the dead of night when no one is looking is piracy. It's not piracy when kids swap music over the Internet using Napster. There were one billion music downloads last year but music sales are way up, so how is Napster hurting the music industry? It's not. The only people scared of Napster are people who have filler on their albums and are scared that if people hear more than one single, they're not going to buy the record.



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