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The Birth of Legal Music Downloads |
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Do you still remember when the whole Napster thing began? At that time,
anyone with Internet access and a computer could get free tunes. It was
all about the shareware. Of course, it eventually came to a screeching
halt after a lot of complaints from musical artists, record labels and
a major court hearing. However, the concept of legal music downloads
was soon created.
Suddenly we can buy our favorite songs online from any artist or band. It was really great, and virtually everyone still benefits from it. The attraction was that you could buy a song you like instead of buying the entire album. We don’t often like the entire album anyway. It turned out to be a new-age win-win situation, all thanks to legal music downloads.
The most amusing aspect of the shareware dilemma with Napster was the public's mentality on the issue. A majority of the public didn't care that Napster did not provide legal music downloads. In fact, most folks were amused when the musicians came forward and demanded that we have to pay if we want to hear their music.
The working-class public just could not easily feel bad for some rich musicians. Anyway, the musical artists won and the court ruled against Napster. Well, it was certainly to be expected. Fortunately, Napster is not totally gone. You can still pull up the site, but you now have to pay for legal music downloads.
Are you interested in legal music downloads? Shareware is definitely not a thing of the past by any means. The World-Wide-Web still provides, and always will provide, free downloads. I mean, it's just the way things are. It's a lot like gun laws.
They're useless because the folks who should not have the guns can always get them some way or another. Anyway, you can access some legal music downloads by going to ITunes on the Internet. All the songs that you want are just a mouse click away.
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