{"id":2085,"date":"2008-01-07T15:20:45","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T20:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/01\/07\/irony-alert-napster-offers-mp3-files\/"},"modified":"2008-01-07T15:20:45","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T20:20:45","slug":"irony-alert-napster-offers-mp3-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/01\/07\/irony-alert-napster-offers-mp3-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Irony alert: Napster offers mp3 files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/internetNews\/idUSN0633174720080107\">the news<\/a> about Napster offering non-DRM mp3 files and felt a kind of psychological whiplash from all the ironies inherent in that brief item, don&#8217;t feel bad. I share your pain. Imagine: the idea of an online music provider named Napster offering actual mp3 files for people to download. I would have liked to have been in the meeting when someone suggested <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2008\/01\/07\/napster-mp3-downloads\/\">a strategy<\/a> that could easily have been implemented (at least technically) almost a decade ago, when the original Napster was just getting off the ground. Instead, we&#8217;ve had years of expensive lawsuits and watched the music industry stumble from disaster to disaster.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you read the news about Napster offering non-DRM mp3 files and felt a kind of psychological whiplash from all the ironies inherent in that brief item, don&#8217;t feel bad. I share your pain. Imagine: the idea of an online music provider named Napster offering actual mp3 files for people to download. I would have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/01\/07\/irony-alert-napster-offers-mp3-files\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Irony alert: Napster offers mp3 files&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}