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That does seem plausible, because before Napster the industry boogeyman was sites hosting MP3s.
I still can’t believe how the copyright police culture won out in the end and everyone went from Napster and laughing at YoU WoUlDn’T DoWnLoAd A CaR to ”noooo you can’t pirate because that hurts the corporatinos!”
Yeah there was this weird shift where the cyberpunk attitude of “all big tech/corporations should not be trusted” got displaced by “we can’t stand in the way of the corporatinos that will only hinder ProgressTM.”
Well except for Apple. Now don’t get me wrong, Apple deserves a lot of shit for their practices, but it became a blame dump wherein all the problems with the tech industry were Apple problems and everyone else was fine; Bill Gates is getting ice cream! Elon posts le epic memes! I think we’re getting a shift though, with Musk running Twitter into the ground and fewer people buying the tech innovation narrative and seeing that the new tech media boss is the same as the old media boss. Things like the fediverse, Blue Sky, Mastadon gaining traction, hell the rise of VPNs into the mainstream signal that people have figured out, oh wait I’m the product.
That does seem plausible, because before Napster the industry boogeyman was sites hosting MP3s.
I still can’t believe how the copyright police culture won out in the end and everyone went from
Napster and laughing at YoU WoUlDn’T DoWnLoAd A CaR to 
”noooo you can’t pirate because that hurts the corporatinos!”
Yeah there was this weird shift where the cyberpunk attitude of “all big tech/corporations should not be trusted” got displaced by “we can’t stand in the way of the corporatinos that will only hinder ProgressTM.”
Well except for Apple. Now don’t get me wrong, Apple deserves a lot of shit for their practices, but it became a blame dump wherein all the problems with the tech industry were Apple problems and everyone else was fine; Bill Gates is getting ice cream! Elon posts le epic memes! I think we’re getting a shift though, with Musk running Twitter into the ground and fewer people buying the tech innovation narrative and seeing that the new tech media boss is the same as the old media boss. Things like the fediverse, Blue Sky, Mastadon gaining traction, hell the rise of VPNs into the mainstream signal that people have figured out, oh wait I’m the product.
That “le wholesome Bill Gates is standing in line for a borger!” picture was posted so many fucking times on