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10/17/00
Matthew Chalifoux
14 Kingsbury Court
Oak Brook, Il 60523
TIME Magazine Letters
Time & Life Building Rockefeller Center
New York, NY 10020
Dear Bill Joy,
As a long time fan of Napster and file-sharing systems I would like to tell you that I
think your missing the whole point of Napster. Napster encourages and promotes music
awareness for bands and the market place for music. You state in your article that you
are afraid we will see a "decline in the quantity and quality of what was published." If
anything the complete opposite of this will happen. When people listen to music and enjoy
it, they will go to the record store and buy it, regardless of where they hear it. And if
you look at the record sales they are the highest they've been in history. So let me ask
you how something: how is Napster hurting the quality of music and the quantity of music
being made? Frankly at a certain point you have to let people have their music and stop
being Internet Nazis.
Sincerely,
Matthew Chalifoux