Show Notes Episode 318: It’s A Pirate’s Life for Me Part Two: Downloaded from Napster

This week Host Dave Bledsoe boots up his old laptop from college and is happy to discover he still remembers the password! (That’s because it is the same one he uses today and is the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!) On the show this week we wrap up our series on music piracy with the halcyon days of Napster before the music industry flooded it with porn and viruses!  (Yeah, we KNOW it was you, assholes!)

Along the way we briefly visit Columbia House Records and explain why their business model actually DID work for so many years!  (Come to find out, people are really dumb!)  Then we dive right into the Information Superhighway circa 1999.  (Was there porn?  You betcha!) From there we say mean things about the recording industry for a good long while before finally getting around to talking about Napster.  (This show is really only tangentially about Napster, did you expect anything different?)  From there we talk about the rise and fall of file sharing, the fall and rise of the modern music industry and how throughout it all, it is still a corrupt, venal bunch of assholes dedicated to ripping off artists so they can make billions of dollars.  (#America) Finally we cover how the music industry recovered and found new and exciting ways to rip off the artists!

Our Sponsor this week is Polka Songs dot com, the source for all your pirated polka music!  We open the show with guys from Metallica telling you how shitty you are for downloading their music and close with Terra Naomi being caught stealing!

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Citations Needed:

A Brief History of The Music Industryhttp://www.musicthinktank.com/mtt-open/a-brief-history-of-the-music-industry.html

Putting the Band Back Togetherhttps://ir.citi.com/QnhL09FARMDbvMhnCWFtjkqYOlPmgXqWS5Wrjts%2B6usU7suR9o7uUEFwZNjmUfyrAn10iZxCkYc%3D

Napster: the day the music was set freehttps://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/feb/24/napster-music-free-file-sharing

12-year-old settles music swap lawsuithttps://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/09/09/music.swap.settlement/

Artists, Musicians and the Internethttps://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2004/12/05/artists-musicians-and-the-internet/

The Year The Music Dieshttps://www.wired.com/2003/02/dirge/

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