The amazing story of the service that capture the internet’s heart, tried to work with the big labels but was then killed in one weekend by the RIAA.
Acting almost independantly of the surprisingly compliant record labels, the RIAA leveraged Amazon to remove the hosting overnight even as licensing deals were being made with record companies.
The site’s creator, Justin Ouellette, went into bat for the whole internet this year. What a great guy.
culby reblogged this from lenier and added:
see how close this came to be. Maybe there’s hope after all (if we can get...damn lawyers...
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