Brian Dear on Nostr: History repeating itself. Why, I’m old enough to remember when the RIAA sued my ...
History repeating itself.
Why, I’m old enough to remember when the RIAA sued my then-employer, MP3•com, in 2000–twenty-four long years ago—for exactly the same thing. $67 billion lawsuit I think it was.
Record labels won in the end. Vivendi Universal wound up owning what was left of MP3 after that debacle.
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