What is your earliest memory of using the Internet? How does it compare with your online experiences now?
My earliest memory of the internet is trying to download music through Napster in about 1997. I remember is was really exciting and frustrating. Exciting because I could save my money by downloading it and it was easily accessible. Frustrating because it was dial up internet and if someone rang or if someone picked up the phone in another room it would stop downloading and I would have to start downloading it from the beginning again... raah!
Nowadays, the process of downloading music is soooo much faster and efficient. Not only music but movies and tv shows. Online stores like iTunes have made purchasing music cheaper and have made CD's pretty much redundant with advent of MP3 players..
There is no change in the argument about illegally downloading content. Record companies have been suing people for downloading music for a while now. I remember back in the late 90's Lars from Metallica kicking off about it and suing Napster for lost royalties.
There is some change in that a few musical artists (Oasis, Radiohead) are releasing their new music for free on their websites.
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