Dec. 7, 1999 – A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
From Wired’s This Day in Tech: 1999: The Recording Industry Association of America sues Napster, the online, peer-to-peer file sharing service that’s allowing millions of computer users to score free, copyright music. The rules are about to change. Napster founder Shawn Fanning won rock-star celebrity with the service. But music-industry heads were spinning. So, the [...]