Tokenization of the music industry with music NFTs
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Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. “Party Like It’s 1999,” sang Prince Rogers Nelson, because on June 1, 1999, a new computer software service would forever change how music was distributed, consumed, and even written. Napster was a peer-to-peer file-sharing service that quickly gained popularity among music fans—since its launch in May 1999, it had gathered over 20 million users by March 2000—looking for a way to share and download music online for free. The cataloging software, created by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, searched your computer’s hard drive, listed all the MP3 music files contained in it, and allowed anyone else using the service to share and play those files. Napster’s popularity was short-lived as its ultimate demise resulted from its legal troubles stemming from cybercrime: file sharing and piracy. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the company’s computer software facilitated copyright infringement and filed a lawsuit against Napster. Napster was ultimately shut down in 2001. Nevertheless, Napster’s technology had a profound impact on the music industry by paving the way for other P2P file-sharing services, which helped to popularize the idea of downloading music online, which gave rise to the concept of the first virtual currency for peer-to-peer systems: Karma. Karma was introduced in 2003 as a way to pay for P2P file-sharing services. The co-founder of the first internet money—way ahead of Bitcoin (BTC)—was a virtual currency called Karma, designed by Dr. Emin Gun Sirer, who is also the founder and CEO of Ava Labs. Dr. Sirer explained that the emergence of the internet and, subsequently, the World Wide Web marked a pivotal shift from isolated, local computing to global-scale computing: “Architecturally, we transitioned from standalone computers…
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