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ELI5 the anti MP3 push from 2002
Okay so I was watching The I.T. Crowd and there was a sticker that on the door that says “MP3 is not a crime” and I looked it up and I couldn’t really understand anything I was reading (maybe it’s been a long day).
The articles reference something called Napster, legal battles, consumer rights in music media, MP3s (remember those?), MUSIC (the organization, ig?), and I couldn’t understand much of the words or the situation.
Anyways, would love a simplified explanation because it does seem fairly interesting and, from what I did pick up, something relevant as video game companies stop making physical copies of games so that no one really “owns” what they buy.
u/A-very-HungryCat — 3 days ago