I haven’t been a P2P user for nearly a decade now, but there was a shining moment back in graduate school when Napster’s bounty of music looked shiny and irresistible. Though discovery tools were primitive, Napster made it simple enough to find bands that one liked, then to browse the music collection of those who also liked said band. In this way I discovered The Jayhawks and dove deeper into Radiohead—which at the time I knew only as the band who had done “Creep” some years before. Those downloads made no money for the artists, but that exposure turned me into a huge fan of both groups and it wasn’t long before I spent my afternoons scavenging the used CD shops of Chapel Hill to find more of the incredible music I was discovering.
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P2P users may be music industry’s best friend after all
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P2P users may be music industry’s best friend after all
I haven’t been a P2P user for nearly a decade now, but there was a shining moment back in graduate school when Napster’s bounty of music looked shiny and irresistible. Though discovery tools were primitive, Napster made it simple enough to find bands that one liked, then to browse the music collection of those who also liked said band. In this way I discovered The Jayhawks and dove deeper into Radiohead—which at the time I knew only as the band who had done “Creep” some years before. Those downloads made no money for the artists, but that exposure turned me into a huge fan of both groups and it wasn’t long before I spent my afternoons scavenging the used CD shops of Chapel Hill to find more of the incredible music I was discovering.
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P2P users may be music industry’s best friend after all