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Napster: the Day the Music Was Set Free
theodp writes "Before iTunes, Netflix, MySpace, Facebook, and the Kindle, 17-year-old Shawn Fanning and 18-year-old Sean Parker gave the world Napster. And it was very good. The Observer's Tom Lamont reports on VH1's soon-to-premiere Downloaded, a documentary that tells the story of the rise and fall of the file-sharing software that started the digital music revolution, and shares remembrances of how Napster rocked his world. 'I was 17,' writes Lamont, 'and the owner of an irregular music collection that numbered about 20 albums, most of them a real shame (OMC's How Bizarre, the Grease 2 soundtrack). One day I had unsupervised access to the family PC and, for reasons forgotten, an urge to hear the campy orchestral number from the film Austin Powers. I was a model Napster user: internet-equipped, impatient and mostly ignorant of the ethical and legal particulars of peer-to-peer file-sharing. I installed the software, searched Napster's vast list of MP3 files, and soon had Soul Bossa Nova plinking kilobyte by kilobyte on to my hard drive.' Sound familiar?"
... and you're a monster. A Monster I say! All talented musicians, movie makers and other artists are starving now because of the likes of you!
May you rot in the hell that you created where the only music that sells is for 12 your old teen girls and their computer-illiterate mommies.
Even today they should be put in a torture chamber to force to recognize that the music boom of today was in good part thanks to that kind of file sharing.
What music boom?
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it