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" Napster was ultimately brought down by copyright law. For aggressive bot providers accused of riding roughshod over intellectual property (ip), Mr Nash has a
by myrryr 4y ago
" Napster was ultimately brought down by copyright law. For aggressive bot providers accused of riding roughshod over intellectual property (ip), Mr Nash has a simple message that sounds, from a music-industry veteran of the Napster era, like a threat. “Don’t deploy in the market and beg for forgiveness."
I don't think that is how it went. Napster was brought down by streaming services.
Just like computer game piracy was ultimate brought down by Steam.
And pirating TV shows and movies was -for a while- stopped by netflix.
- Wingman4l7 4y agoThe key takeaway here: Access is king. I would bet that every time some stupid licensing agreement expires and a TV / movie streaming service has to remove content from their platform -- content people reasonably expected to be there, or worse, content that they were in the middle of or in the habit of enjoying -- a pirate may be born from the frustrated customer. Keep access flowing, and you'll keep your customers.
- blueboo 4y agoNapster was shut down in 2001 by litigation Spotify launched in 2006