Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 07:31:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Digital Ebola To: info@napster.com Subject: Freedom Greetings, I know that you must recieve hundreds of emails a day, I will try to keep my points short. As recent news has put it, a certain band has identified 300000+ users and is wishing them banned from negotiating their connections thru Napster. How did they come to this conclusion so quickly that they were "pirates"? Did they raid 300000+ houses? The way I see this, at one time I have bought every album to date of the said band. Sometimes I lose CD's. If I buy something, it is mine. I can do with it as I wish. Who are they to say that I can not? If I want to burn the CD, or give it away, they should have no say. Same goes for my music in any format that I choose. I do not see it as trading "warez" but as giving away something as a gift to the general populace. Are the records companies saying that the album that I purchased to be my own, are not mine to do with as I see fit? And If I am at a party, and I choose to play music that I own, is that not in a sense, giving it away? I wonder how many of those 300000+ people actually bought the CD's in the first place? I bet quite a few, the music was encoded somewhere. Food for thought, please keep on fighting, if one industry can limit freedoms, so can others. Sincerely Digital Ebola