{"id":14573,"date":"2018-06-01T23:16:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T23:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/the-day-the-music-industry-changed-forever-2\/"},"modified":"2018-06-01T23:16:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T23:16:04","slug":"the-day-the-music-industry-changed-forever-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/the-day-the-music-industry-changed-forever-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day the Music Industry Changed Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1613\" title=\"Napster\" alt=\"Napster\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/9c10a__napster.png\" width=\"250\" height=\"239\" \/>June 1, 1999<\/p>\n<p>Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker release the filesharing service\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Napster\" target=\"_blank\">Napster<\/a>.\u00a0The service provides a simple way for users to copy and distribute MP3 music files. It becomes an instant hit, especially among college students. Just over 6 months later, on December 7, 1999, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) will file a lawsuit against the service, alleging mass copyright infringement. Eventually this lawsuit will force the shutdown of the company on\u00a0September 3, 2002, but not before the popularity of downloading digital music is firmly entrenched in a generation of Internet users.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/06\/01\/the-day-the-music-industry-changed-forever\/\">The Day the Music Industry Changed Forever<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/06\/01\/the-day-the-music-industry-changed-forever\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 1, 1999 Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker release the filesharing service\u00a0Napster.\u00a0The service provides a simple way for users to copy and distribute MP3 music files. It becomes an instant hit, especially among college students. Just over 6 months later, on December 7, 1999, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) will file a lawsuit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[3626,3400,3399,4122],"class_list":["post-14573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-changed","tag-forever","tag-industry","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}