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Founded by John and Sean Fanning in a college dorm room, Napster was the first peer-to-peer file sharing platform to hit the internet.
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After a lengthy court battle Napster, as it was originally known, closes it's doors before being bought by Sony.
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First monthly subscription to a music library without the actual download of songs.
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Kazaa, under pressure from the courts decides to attempt to go legitimate and sell songs, the endeavor does not go over well as users run from Kazaa.
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Lil Wayne begins releasing music for free as mixtapes and begins a trend that has seen millions of original works given away for free, thus drastically changing the music game. Download Here
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The indie-rock pioneers make a statement by releasing the album on their own website and allowing fans to "pay what they wanted" meaning as little as a dollar or as much as one could afford. It put the power in the hands of the fans.
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Marking a huge victory for the online music giant, iTunes surpassed the music sales of Wal-Mart making it the main purveyor of tunes in the world.
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Tha Carter III, released less than two years after <i>Dedication 2<i/> sold over a million units in one of the darkest times for record sales in the United States and proved that fans will buy what they like after recieving mixtapes from the young MC.
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Seen as one of the largest holdouts of the digital music industry, The Beatles are finally convinced by Steve Jobs to sell their music for .99 a song on iTunes giving the site ultra-credibility.
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The Apple head was the inventor behind such products as the iPod, iPad, iPhone and iTunes, all of which have had a hand in changing the landscape of the music industry in as little as ten years.
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As a show of the tough times the traditional record industry was experiencing, RCA shut down three of its record label branches that thrived in the 90s.Latest Casualties of Digital Music
