Death of the Compact Disc

[HunterTech 987]

That must've been a good while before I joined, because I don't think I've seen anyone discuss such event in the time I've been here.

[King Mark 3,625]

well yeah it was a thing back in the mid 2000's

[Jay 37,287]

The RIAA starting suing music downloaders in 2003:

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/08/technology/record-industry-sues-hundreds-of-internet-music-swappers.html

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/riaa-sues-261-file-swappers/

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/riaa-begins-suing-individual-sharers-of-copyrighted-mp3-files

https://money.cnn.com/2003/09/08/technology/riaa_suits/

 

 

They gave up suing in 2008:

 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/riaa-stops-suing-individuals-file-124702/

https://www.wired.com/2008/12/riaa-says-it-pl/

https://www.eff.org/wp/riaa-v-people-five-years-later

https://hbr.org/2008/12/why-the-riaa-stopped-suing

[Richard Penna 3,671]

Wow, that was 20 years ago! The very mechanism by which I created my first collection of scores and led to hundreds of purchases, was seen as pure evil by an industry that was terrified of adapting to the digital age.

[Manakin Skywalker 4,891]

“We’ve been telling people for a long time that file-sharing copyrighted music is illegal, that you are not anonymous when you do it"

 

How times have changed...