# Safety of using napster (or similar services)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safety-of-using-napster-or-similar-services/8970>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 16, 2000, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safety-of-using-napster-or-similar-services/8970 "2000-03-16T16:25:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 3

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**Author:** ![TBone2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@TBone2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBone2)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safety-of-using-napster-or-similar-services/8970/41 "2000-03-21T01:21:00Z")

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> Originally posted by Homer:  
> \*\*Not a damn thing you type is going to change a single person’s mind, so just keep it to yourself. Be all straight and moral and righteous somewhere else. Preferably over there.
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> –Tim
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Tim, my son, settle down! We all know that nothing we can post will change a mind like yours. It may interest you to know that none of us even _want_ to change, or otherwise have contact with, a mind like yours.

Please do us all a favor and let us in on where your are. Believe me, we’d all like very much to be “over there” in relation to your location. Oh, and try to keep your reply _very_ short. Thanks!

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_I don’t know why fortune smiles on some and lets the rest go free…_

T

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**Author:** ![Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilgore_Trout_1)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safety-of-using-napster-or-similar-services/8970/42 "2000-03-21T02:33:00Z")

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> Originally posted by Homer:  
> **You high and mighty “I’m so much better than you, because you’re a dirty little dick who uses Napster!” people are making me fucking sick.**

i don’t see many of those people in this thread, so why are you fucking sick? i admit that i use napster, but i also admit that i am stealing the songs.

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> **Who the fuck doesn’t know that DMB has an open taping policy?**

me.

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> **Jeez. Look, if you don’t like it, stay the hell away from it. Just shut up about it. Not a damn thing you type is going to change a single person’s mind, so just keep it to yourself.**

i’m not trying to change anyone’s mind regarding the use of napster.

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> \*\*Be all straight and moral and righteous somewhere else. Preferably over there.

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## i am not being moral or righteous. if i were, i probably wouldn’t be using napster myself, would i? i am merely stating that it is a crime to download pirated mp3s.

_what is essential is invisible to the eye -the fox_

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**Author:** ![Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilgore_Trout_1)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safety-of-using-napster-or-similar-services/8970/43 "2000-03-21T04:26:00Z")

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so the thread is no longer hijacked…  
[http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001494.html](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001494.html)

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_what is essential is invisible to the eye -the fox_

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**Author:** ![Konrad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f475e1/32.png) [@Konrad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Konrad)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2000, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safety-of-using-napster-or-similar-services/8970/44 "2000-03-22T02:45:00Z")

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Yarster: It’s probably windows. You can set up windows so it automatically dials in when a program tries to access the internet. Play around with the internet settings in the control panel.

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