[Red Badger]

BLAST FROM THE PAST Ping!.....................

[Jonty30]

Good luck. Not for me, but it could be worth doing if done right.

[z3n]

I vowed never give a red cent to metallica and to this day I never have.

[pburiak]

I first started building my online music (legally owned) library almost 20 years ago with Yahoo Music.

Yahoo subsequently sold the music streaming service and it was rebranded as Rhapsody.

That company was then sold to another owner, who apparently held the copyright to the Napster name and logo, and Rhapsody was rebranded to Napster primarily for the name recognition despite it no longer being a pirate/file sharing site.

Napster is the T-Mobile of digital music compared to the AT&T/Verizon equivalents of Apple Music and Spotify, but I have a library of over 1,000 songs that I don’t want to lose or recreate on another service so I hope these new owners don’t end up discontinuing that element of the business.

[Resolute Conservative]

I thought Lyle was the original Napster and Shawn Fanning stole it from him. :)

[Tom Tetroxide]

“Don’t Download this Song”
by Weird Al Yankovic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGM8PT1eAvY

Lyrics:

Once in a while maybe you will feel the urge
To break international copyright law
By downloading MP3’s from file sharing sites
Like Morpheus or Grokster or LimeWire or KaZaA
But deep in your heart you know the guilt would drive you mad
And the shame would leave a permanent scar
‘Cause you start out stealing songs, and then you’re robbing liquor stores
And selling crack and running over school kids with your car

So don’t download this song
The record store’s where you belong
Go and buy the CD like you know that you should
Oh don’t download this song

Oh you don’t want to mess with the RIAA
They’ll sue you if you burn that CDR
It doesn’t matter if you’re a grandma or a seven year old girl
They’ll treat you like the evil, hard bitten criminal scum you are

So don’t download this song
Don’t go pirating music all day long
Go and buy the CD like you know that you should
Oh, don’t download this song

Don’t take away money from artists just like me
How else can I afford another solid gold Humvee?
And diamond studded swimming pools, these things don’t grow on trees
So all I ask is everybody, please

Don’t download this song (don’t do it, no, no)
Even Lars Ulrich knows it’s wrong (you can just ask him)
Go and buy the CD like you know that you should (you really should)
Oh, don’t download this song

Don’t download this song (Oh please don’t you do it)
Or you might wind up in jail like Tommy Chong (remember Tommy)
Go and buy the CD (right now) like you know that you should (go out and buy it)
Oh don’t download this song

Don’t download this song (no no no no no no)
Or you’ll burn in hell before too long (and you’d deserve it)
Go and buy the CD (just buy it) like you know that you should (ya cheap bastard)
Oh, don’t download this song

[TangoLimaSierra]

And I thought The Onion trying to buy Info Wars was odd.

[packrat35]

The biggest mistake the record companies did was shutting down Napster. After it was shut down, dozens of others took its place and the cat was then truly out of the bag.

They could have worked with them but no..

Remember when the movie companies fought about VCR’s, then lost... and finally making billions selling movies on VHS. Years of sales wasted.

Same thing with MP3’s. Years wasted on lawsuits, then embracing and making billions.

Then the same with streaming...they never learn!

[ChronicMA]

200 million is just 1/5000th of a Trillion dollars, the value of several large tech companies.

just a drop in the bucket, let’s not pretend 200 million is a lot

[doorgunner69]

Not sure what this is, something like that bitecoin thing?