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...d potential for revenue. Gnutella and its kin won't have any centralized point." Similarly, in Salon, Scott Rosenberg compares the anti-Napster forces to those advocates of Prohibition: "For all sorts of reasons, some good ones and some rationalizations, people don't feel that they're doing anything wrong when they trade music files with Napster. Maybe they're already spending hundreds of dollars a year on overpriced CDs. Maybe they're sick of the music industry's habit of packaging one hit with a bunch of dud tracks. Maybe they just want to check out music before buying it in ways that the current dismal radio-and-MTV universe simply don't allow." Check out what Rob Malda wrote on Slashdot: "I've decided that I won't be buying any RIAA CDs for awhile personally [I've already cancelled a couple of orders, and I buy a ton of CDs], but decide for yourself. Should peer-to-peer file sharing be legal or not, on the Internet? Should companies like Google and Yahoo be held legally responsible for the content that they index? Meanwhile, the OpenNAP servers and Gnutella are proving that the genie is out of the bottle, and while this lawsuit may set a huge legal precedent, it won't help the RIAA in the real world. It should really work with Napster, since there is already significant market share a...