Comments on: 201: Napster introduced http://xponentialmusic.org/blogs/885mmmm/2007/10/13/201-napster-introduced/ Just another Xponentialmusic.org weblog Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:07:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: Andrew http://xponentialmusic.org/blogs/885mmmm/2007/10/13/201-napster-introduced/#comment-30547 Andrew Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:43:15 +0000 http://xponentialmusic.org/blogs/885mmmm/2007/10/13/201-napster-introduced/#comment-30547 Completely agree Mike--no Napster, no itunes! Completely agree Mike–no Napster, no itunes!

]]> By: Mike http://xponentialmusic.org/blogs/885mmmm/2007/10/13/201-napster-introduced/#comment-21306 Mike Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:18:43 +0000 http://xponentialmusic.org/blogs/885mmmm/2007/10/13/201-napster-introduced/#comment-21306 It is absurd that Napster is only #201 while iTunes is #5. Napster is what changed the music industry drastically, making people realize that they could download individual songs and that digital music was so much more convenient than CDs and tapes. iTunes was merely a response to the situation created by Napster! (It was a great response, of course, both legitimizing and mainstreaming downloads, but the disparity between these two results on the list makes no sense.) It is absurd that Napster is only #201 while iTunes is #5.

Napster is what changed the music industry drastically, making people realize that they could download individual songs and that digital music was so much more convenient than CDs and tapes.

iTunes was merely a response to the situation created by Napster!

(It was a great response, of course, both legitimizing and mainstreaming downloads, but the disparity between these two results on the list makes no sense.)

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