How Two Kids Destroyed a $20 Billion Industry | Napster.com 

Okay. I won’t.

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I was wholly unprepared for that ad spot

when the sponsor is good for once instead of the youtuber just talking about how good it is

That was the *BEST* RU-vid sponsorship segment ever !

Right? This is some victim blaming nonsense. Greed needs to be challenged, we aren't evil for challenging it.

@@0mikr0n time for the RESISTANCE

And the cycle will always continue. A new napster-esk era seems to be coming, but this time for literally every creative field. Gonna be amazing to see. It's human cycles, to rise to power and get drunk on it, then crumble, history shows us nothing different.

Can you imagine a music label earning 498m instead of 500m because people pirate 😂 We starve those unfortunate millionaires and billionaires. They even make their own news and reports about how they allegedly lose billions to piracy. Meanwhile people who pirate either can't afford it or are proven to be people who will never buy entertainment. Oh, and some of them offer a terrible experience even when you pay. Everything on Netflix is low bitrate garbage you see the pixels of even on 4k. So you either pay a small fortune for a DVD or... comprise and save 20-140+$.

@@podrumkaleto5042 Uh, are you not aware of tower records? Piracy literally cut music sales in half for a while, which took down tower records and some other big players, then it made a comeback thanks to streaming, but now they seem to be reverting back to their greedy ways and it's gonna bite them in their ass again. It's a loop, ppl don't learn. Tho I think streaming as a concept is here to stay, the crown is likely to change hands, which will be messy, and beautiful.

You don't fight piracy by deprivation.

Well if you buy a theme park ticket you don’t expect to buy the whole park to yourself, does this make it logical to go in the park for free? No, it doesn’t. This is why i never agreed to this statement.

​@@Robbie-pc1dlthat doesn't work because what I bought is the ticket not the park. This argument is referring to the fact that you can buy something on an online store, such as music or a game and then when the company you bought it from shuts down then you no longer own it despite paying the same for it as others did on other platforms.

@@RpJesus_1 You wouldn’t download an automobile

@@Robbie-pc1dlthat’s cause you can’t download an automobile…

Really? How long were you in that chat room for you and her to connect with each other? How did you talk after the chat?

@@Azurethewolf168 Not sure I remember how long we were in the chatroom, that particular time... it wasn't always the same length of time that a server would remain active. She got an idea of who I was from a conversation I was having with another user... She private-messaged me in chat that she liked the way my mind worked... and we chatted a few minutes and decided to chat some more... which is when we exchanged ICQ numbers, as I had said. ICQ was the period-equivalent to Messenger... we were chatting in ICQ within minutes. She, from New Orleans, and I, from Montreal Canada. Been there many times, same for her... But mostly, the challenges of life have conspired to keep us more than a thousand miles apart, but we still talk almost every day.

Oh man I remember ICQ. I heard that "uh oh!!" notification sound a few months ago and nearly astral projected by a couple decades. 😂

Asl?

@@kriscynical A couple? That's only 2003. And I just made myself sick.

Bro I thought it was a part of the video LOL

My thoughts exactly 😂

​@shinigamilord86i think they are reported by users who use it

Squid seems to be _really_ good at doing that. lol

I though it was a youtube ad

That sounds epic.

That’s actually a song, by a band called OPM - it’s like an interlude to another song!

aka cartel.

south park did a whole episode about it and they definitely put the blame on the bands lol “Britney Spears had to downgrade to a gulf stream 3 instead of 4 because of music pirating”

thats basically the same thing to me really

@Januaryof28 ...being rich and being robbed are the same thing to you?

"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, Weird Al Yankovic (A song that, in true Al fashion, was offered for free on his website)

Exactly

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NAPETER OF PUPPETS IM PULLING YOUR STRINGS

Oh boy

I didn't even know it _was_ an advertisement until I watched the whole thing

Id rather it be very clear that I'm watching an ad or sponsored content. I don't want the line between content and advertisement to be blurred. That's a scary thought.

abstaining from them acellerates the process :) boycott! boycott!

Sooner than most think, AI generated content is getting better by the day, soon when a kid in their basement can create masterpieces, Hollywood will die, and so will most streaming services, new ones will come in tho, to be more of a host, like how youtube does things.

and then something else will come in to ‘save’ the industry, become a huge success, then fall into the same traps streaming did, as did cable and physical media before it. the ouroboros eats its own tail and the cycle repeats. this scenario was inevitable.

Then how come i pirate the latest disney films and the latest songs and the latest games...?

​​@@n.park1 You can still do the piracy things like the past 20 years but the mainstream had gone into streaming and SaaS, no consumer "owns" any copy of media.

bro i can pirate music with audacity- just use an ad blocker go to youtube and record the sound on your pc then hit play and boom you got as much as you wanna label. just like before the internet you can always just record the thing. they can really only do stuff like this with copyright destroy that which doesnt even break the law. cause the law is just an inelegant code/ one which purpose is to protect industry.napsters only crime was cutting out that parasyte so it died. artists and fans were never the goals of these laws, as copyright only protects you if youre big enough to swing money around. thatss by design. thats why fangames get struck down by nintendo- they make the argument that making fangames even free ones cuts into their market potential. and ive never seen evidence that it does. sega even swung their fangame into an official one on the same console. so that lie is just there because they didnt publish it by signing a one sided parasitical deal. its the same in all art related industries. its not a real product its an art peice so the market value is as inflated as diamonds. its fake high fashion. and you can spot the bought by who was attacking napster and who was making fun of those people. lets take a look oh metalica led by lars ulrich a lil self important rat who isnt as good or responcible as his peers in the band, and is documented to have to work with these ego problems with people who desperately want to work more smoothly. then you got dave grohl mocking them for siding against napster, cause they made their name on kids bootlegging their lives with tape recorders and spreading it through the streets. you couldnt play an easier game of spot the bootlicker if it was literally a picture of somoene licking a boot.

​@@n.park1 💥📢🚨💥📢🚨💥📢🚨💥📢🚨

50/50 chance that all physical media is eventually going to be automatically labelled as contraband. Making a mark on one thing with another thing will be a crime since you're statistically probably about to infringe on copyright.

I love my 4k/Blu/DVD collection. I stopped using steaming services several years ago, and tbh I do pirate sometimes but not because I'm against paying, I just can't always afford to buy something, or don't want to blind buy. But anything I love I eventually buy and delete the torrents. Having a lovely shelf displaying them, the boutique label collectors sets with nice packing and cool booklets and bonus features. And the act of scanning my shelf, grabbing movie, putting it into my player, dimming the light and grabbing my remote makes the experience special and helps me feel connected to the media I'm watching. The only thing that is rough is anime, I love it but the Blu rays cost twice as much on average as 4ks of western media and I just can't justify paying $35 for each season of every shounen I want to watch, so I unfortunately pirate a lot of anime unless I find good deals on them. I wish Blu ray was region free like 4k because I would swarm yahoo auctions Japan but alas, they aren't. And very little anime comes to 4k, but when it does you bet I grab it. Akira never looked so good, or sounded so good

And then in the last five minutes something would happen to interrupt the connection and you were screwed. 😂

Yeah, but it was that handshake dial tone that still haunts me to date.

@@dennis1954 It seems to be that tone is either nostalgic in a good way to people or something that haunts them. I've never encountered anybody who had a neutral opinion on it. I'm in the nostalgic camp because it makes me remember coming home from junior high and connecting in order to talk to my best friend in Mexico who I had met through an eGroups mailing list. I did it every single day for years. We still send lengthy emails back and forth a few times a year, 25 years later.

A 3 minute mp3 took forever.

instant if it was compressed to hell :P

@@Pwnz0rServer2009that’s for sure. Either sit for hours to get a two minute song wait a minute for a crunchy low quality song.

That feeling of joy when you saw that your download was in the 90%s and would be finishing soon.

Heard of Soulseek? It’s basically the same.

Plenty of options, you just haven't looked for them yet.

I did that with film scores and soundtracks that were out of print. Even back then I tried to legitimately buy physical media whenever I could, and only turned to Napster/Kazaa/BitTorrent when all of the legal avenues were exhausted.

RU-vid music is great for finding music like that

@@flibbityjibbitythe tradeoff is that its youtube music

the ease of streaming has stings attached though as the company takes yourlmoney and spends it to squash your freedoms to download.

@@LethalBubbles Until they take away VPNs, there will be no squashing.

their money!? it's your money!

Having the data doesn't require physical media 🤦‍♀️

MMMBop by Handsome too, a classic.

every single parody song was by Weird Al even when it wasn't.

🏴‍☠️ We don't believe in lost media on the high seas

Capitalism is progressive. Copyright law is regressive.

Blame capitalism, typical internet.

*authoritarian government Fixed it for ya

to circumvent the napster copyright that was added on before the takedown you would change the artists' letters around. an example would be shakira would be sharika so i assume hanson would be handsome.

I'm too young to have ever used Napster, but I did use Limewire quite a lot, and there were lots of funny mistakes with song titles there like "Don't Worry, Be Happy - Bob Marley". 😂

If Jon Hamm didn't agree though, couldn't he or the company get sued for using him in an ad?

@@kain0067 nah, this was the only most awesome way to do a sponsor.

this. People will always blame the tools instead of the intent.

*Oddysey

Why thank you! Funny you mention that because I thought the exact opposite! I was under the weather when I filmed this, so I thought I was going to have to reshoot it. 😆

@@nationsquid ❤️

iTunes doesn't have DRM. it gives you access to straight up mp3 files.

iTunes never had DRM. Not having DRM was literally one of the selling points of iTunes over other digital music stores.

ITunes doesn't have DRM, when you buy a song it gives you the m4a to keep forever

bro is purposefully spreading misinformation over the internet

@@Bomkzall your personal info is inside these music files and if you don’t remove them and share them with someone then it wouldn’t play (on iPods)

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has faced a LOT of criticism for being "corporatized." It's a very controversial subject matter within that space, as there are things I like about the Hall of Fame, and things that I think should change.