![]() ![]() First, it’s become clear that file sharing (and the industry shifts it helped created) harmed musicians at all levels. However, the past decade has not been kind to that perception. It is punctuated by the fact that many of the artists that were the most vocal about file sharing were also some of the most successful and wealthy including Metallica, Madonna, Dr. ![]() This argument was actually very common during this time (and is still common today). Now, more than 13 years later, we’re going to take a look back at it and see how well the song holds up and whether it’s a relic of a time gone by or if it is still relevant today. In August 2006, he released the album Straight Outta Lynwood, which featured the song Don’t Download This Song. One of those to take a jab at the campaign, and overall piracy climate of the time, was the parody master “Weird Al” Yankovic. The actual impact of the campaign, which lasted for five years and saw some 30,000 lawsuits, is still hotly debated but it did make for interesting conversation and comedy. However, one of the most heavily-publicized and controversial was when, in 2003, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) began targeting individual file sharers for litigation. Rightsholders responded to this in a myriad of ways. ![]() Where Napster was limited to music files, these services could trade any type of content. Apps such as LimeWire and KaZaA stepped into the gap and new technologies such as BitTorrent and not only provided a more-difficult to shutter infrastructure, but also expanded capabilities. Napster had been launched in June 1999 and, though it only survived until July 2001, it forever changed the piracy landscape.Īfter its closure, the void left behind was quickly filled by a variety of file sharing services. The early-to-mid 2000s were a strange time for copyright in the United States. ![]()
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