This was just one of a bunch of suits Greenspan filed against Myspace. He also claimed the site undervalued itself a hundred times over when it sold itself to News Corp, depriving Greenspan of a huger payday. Sadly, we can find no follow up about what happened with the censorship suit, so we have to assume some judge threw it out on the grounds of “lol, it’s Myspace, who cares.”
Napster’s Lawsuit Changed The Industry For Future Music Platforms Like Spotify And Tidal
Nowadays, we all take for granted having access to every song ever made at our fingertips via streaming platforms, but it wasn’t always like that. Before streaming services, people actually bought music. Crazy, right? But now, you can listen to how terrible Ed Sheeran is without paying a single cent. The wonders of technology.
Between music sales and music streaming, however, came the golden age of music piracy, ushered in by Napster. Created in 1999 by not just Sean Parker but also Shawn Fanning, whose uncle John Fanning created Chess.net, Napster allowed users to pirate music using peer-to-peer connections. People had always been able to buy bootleg recordings, but for the first time, the world’s collection of music was available to everyone, everywhere, for no charge.
Great news for people who want free stuf, not so great news for artists and labels. Cue the year 2000, when Metallica found out that their track “I Disappear” was leaked early on Napster, leading to the Metallica v. Napster, Inc lawsuit. The case was decided in favor of Metallica, and other artists, such as Dr. Dre, soon whipped out lawsuits of their own. The staggering number of court cases were eventually too much for Napster to bear, so the company shut down in 2001. Whoops.
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Source: Pinoy Daily News
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