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And that catches your ear. beyonce hasn t opened her mouth yet, and you re already hooked on that song. i looked so deep in your eyes i remember being asked once, what do you think, christina or britney? i said, beyonce. got me looking so crazy right now crazy in love. that s how it begins. it seemed like almost overnight she became a kind of icon. she became a deeply respected figure. beyonce! in the early 2000s the industry was so dominated by pop sensations and booming cd sales that they were totally oblivious to the new generation that didn t think music was something you had to pay for. using a pc to download music is one of the hottest of today s computer trends. that has the recording companies up in arms and heading to court. at the center of their dispute is a music sharing internet service known as napster. in the late 90s and early 2000s the music industry grew complacent. people had come to them and said you have to start investing in ....
The technology that comes after the compact disc. and they just refused to do it. some of rock and roll s bad boys are picking a fight this morning with the internet site napster.com. the lawsuits began when metallica heard on the radio a song that they hadn t released yet. hey, hey, hey metallica was like, what? april 14th metallica filed a lawsuit against napster for basically encouraging people to steal and trade our music illegally. we started this thing called exmetallicafans.org. we re asking the community to completely ban and boycott metallica. i m glad you re an ex-metallica fan because i don t want you to be a fan of ours if that s your attitude. i can t speak for the other bands, but i embraced file sharing. if you got it off napster, please our band was plucked out of ....
Obscurity and given a career because of napster. anyone breaking out so suddenly i had a platform for sharing my music, to the frustration of a label i was on. napster has built a multimillion-dollar business based on people copying files to millions and millions of people they don t know. there s a way the technology can be adapted to the benefit of all of the parties involved, the artists, the industry, and the users. napster should have been an early version of itunes. it s kind of a tragedy it didn t happen back then. today the u.s. court of appeals ruled napster is infringing on copyrighted music, in essence letting its users steal songs. the music label executives absolutely didn t want any kind of itunes-style distribution infrastructure that would fit with the internet because they were terrified of unbundling the single from the album. ....
Video killed the radio star. now has the internet killed the record industry? napster s stealing from us straight up and i m going to fight them to the death. ladies and gentlemen, the strokes! may i have your attention, please? we got a movement. pretty sure the president of the united states is the dixie chicks, they can say what they want to say. billboard s top ten singles all by black rap artists. i don t please everybody with who i am as a person. i love beyonce. that s not a working telephone, is it? hello? empty shelves are all you ll find here at tower records. it s now out of business. ....