The music I stream doesn't feel like mine; it's not something I worked to get. I'm not saying that streaming services have completely eradicated this sentiment. I'm not an year-old curmudgeon; I'm actually an unrepentant streaming evangelist and would be pretty inconsolable if you stripped me of my Spotify access.
Spotify is great for many reasons: up-and-coming artists who might otherwise have a hard time getting in front of a big audience can easily be heard by anyone with an internet connection. It also means that we are, in theory, being exposed to a litany of genres and styles we might otherwise not have given the time of day to. Still, there's a permeating sense of disposability on Spotify. There's no big disappointment if I queue up a track or artist I end up not liking -- with one click, it's just on to the next one, and the next one, and the next one.
The music I stream doesn't feel like mine , it's not something I worked to get. For all its antiquated flaws and frustrations, the Napster era taught me how to be a true music fan -- and for a music fan, Spotify is like the height of the Roman Empire, a hedonistic playground of new artists and tracks and playlists. Discovering and loving great music has never been easier. And that's absolutely badass -- as long as you don't take it for granted. Skip to main content Tech.
Limewire was, if not the most famous and notorious of the filesharing sites, perhaps the most-used. It did need a few years to reach its peak, when millions of people around the world were actively downloading music for free, but the website clearly benefitted from the public gaining an understanding of what these types of programs were, thanks in part to the intense media coverage that Napster and its demise received.
Once that happened, room was made for new entrants into the market. The major battle between the service and the music industry took place between and , when a New York court ruled in the favor of the record labels fronted by Arista Records this time around and the RIAA Recording Industry Association of America , forcing Limewire to finally shutter in There have been several attempts to resuscitate the program or to create another that operates in almost the same way in the years since Limewire vanished, sometimes with a very similar name.
Thankfully for musicians everywhere, none of them have taken off in a major way, and several of them have been taken offline in short order.
LimeWire is one of the biggest remaining P2P networks still operating in the U. Others were either shut down after litigation or, like BearShare and eDonkey, went out of business after reaching settlements with copyright owners. The case also demonstrates the effectiveness of US law in being able to shut down sites and services that are used predominantly for infringing purposes.
The decision will likely have positive benefits in Canada as LimeWire is a popular p2p technology used for music sharing in this country. The ruling may result in a shift in downloading habits of millions of users who had relied on LimeWire to get music for free, to paying services. Meanwhile, Isohunt and its Canadian founder Gary Fung, after being found liable for infringement in the US, await their fate as a US district court judge deliberates on the scope of the permanent injunction to be made against them.
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