On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Jarmo Lundgren wrote:
> I don't know, whether it was Napster Inc. or RIAA who made the
> original mistake. Anyhow, by reacting like a paradroid to this file
> sharing proggy, the recording industry actually succeeded to give
> birth to a huge anti-record-companies phenomenon. There wasn't that
Although this isn't the first one. Back in 1996-97, there was this very
succesful net site called OLGA (online-guitar-archive). Basicly it was a
huge collection of guitar tablature and transribed songs (lyrics w/
chords). It was _really_ popular. Best of all, you could download the
whole archive (tens of thoudands of songs) in one tar package. But then
came EMI, and by threating with legal action forced all the major sites
down. Then started a big "boycott EMI" campaign, but as net wasn't as
popular as it is now (+ other reasons), the boycott didn't really count.
OLGA is still active at www.olga.net, but due to legal problems, it's much
harder to use (files distributed all over the net, no central maintanance,
etc).
Anyway, as big record companies like EMI were ready to take legal action
because pirated song tablatures, it's no suprise how they reacted to
Napster.
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