Digital Music Comes Full Circle

Flash back to the year 2000. File sharing of digital tracks through Napster is all the rage for tech savvy music junkies. The record labels are annoyed but not yet distressed. After all they are just coming off of the best year in their history. But they need to respond and their first strategy is to press regulators to aggressively enforce antipiracy laws. The U.S. Justice Department agrees but counters that it is not enough to complain that digital file sharing is hurting their business. The r...