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🗓️ 9 December 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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0:00.0 | I always like to start with something interesting and how about a date in history. |
0:06.0 | It actually happened this past week. |
0:08.0 | Now listen up and see if you can name the site and also the year that this happened, okay? |
0:13.0 | Well, there used to be this site many, many moons ago where you could download any song from any artist, whatever you want. |
0:20.0 | You could download any song for free over the internet. |
0:23.6 | And millions and millions and millions of people were using it every single minute. |
0:27.6 | You see what happened is people shared their own music on their own PCs. |
0:31.6 | And hence came the phrase, file sharing, right? |
0:35.6 | But this was totally illegal. |
0:36.6 | The recording industry, they said, oh my gosh, we are losing so much money. |
0:41.1 | The feds, you need to get involved. |
0:42.9 | So they bought the site down. |
0:45.0 | So what was the name of the site, Alley and Matt? |
0:47.7 | What was the name of the site? |
0:49.1 | Napster. |
0:50.4 | Okay, and what was the year? |
0:52.2 | It happened this past week in that year. Gosh. 2000. |
0:57.0 | That was what I was going to say. I'll go 99. |
1:00.3 | Bing, big, me, that's our high-tech sound effects for Allie. Yes, it was 1999. Now, of course, we are streaming any music that we want and we pay a monthly fee. |
1:10.7 | Now, one great thing is that now instead of downloading museums, all stuck in our computers, |
1:15.6 | we can have music wherever we want, right? |
1:17.6 | Because we sign up for these music subscription services. |
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