*sigh*, okay let me clear this up.....it's a cumulative effect. Meaning, the impulse-buying fans will get the Japanese CD, and the ones who don't (indeed, the majority) will burn CDRs from Napster. They don't exclude each other. Some people will do one thing, and the ones who don't want to plunk down the import bucks will do the other. Get it? The point is that US sales could potentially be affected by both ways, much more by the second.

I I specified I didn't think this was the way it was going to happen, just a possibility, something to ponder while you while your time away on this board.

Cheers,
Jack.