{"id":3977,"date":"2014-01-22T09:08:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T09:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/01\/22\/gene-simmons-napsters-founders-should-have-been-treated-like-the-nazis\/"},"modified":"2014-01-22T09:08:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T09:08:29","slug":"gene-simmons-napsters-founders-should-have-been-treated-like-the-nazis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/01\/22\/gene-simmons-napsters-founders-should-have-been-treated-like-the-nazis\/","title":{"rendered":"Gene Simmons: \u201cNapster\u2019s Founders Should Have Been Treated Like the Nazis\u2026\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/db\/Gene_Simmons_2012.jpg\/220px-Gene_Simmons_2012.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"220\" height=\"329\" \/><br \/>You say that the music industry sued their fans, destroyed their goodwill, and failed to adapt.\u00a0 Gene Simmons says all of that is bull$%it:\u00a0 \u201cI still think it\u2019s a crime,\u201d Simmons recently told MetalHammer (print only), referring to file-sharing and BitTorrent swapping.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe sad part is that the fans are the ones who are killing the thing that they love: great music. \u201cFor fuck\u2019s sake, you\u2019re not giving the next band a chance.\u201d  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>The question is whether a gigantic hammer would have worked.\u00a0 \u201cRecord labels should have stood together and made the Great Wall of China [around their content] and sued anybody who transgressed,\u201d Simmons continued.\u00a0 \u201dHow much have we lost through illegal downloading?\u00a0 It\u2019s certainly millions.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think it\u2019s tens of millions, but it\u2019s certainly millions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Simmons, once in training to become a Rabbi, has never changed his extremely strong anti-piracy stance, even after Metallica abandoned theirs.\u00a0 That was right around the time that Napster died, and the start of a near-decade of artist silence on the issue.\u00a0 \u201cThey should have bitch-slapped them,\u201d Simmons snapped, referring to Napster\u2019s progenitors.\u00a0 \u201cGone down with the FBI, seized everything and put everyone in jail.\u201d<br \/>\u201cBut then they should have done what the Allies did with the Nazis: made them work for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That didn\u2019t happen: Napster co-founder Sean Parker went on to become co-founding president of Facebook, is currently a multi-billionaire, and carries a sizable interest (and influence) in Spotify.\u00a0 Shawn Fanning, perhaps the most famous Napster co-founder, has gone on to found a number of new startups, including the highly-successful Rupture.\u00a0 Former Napster COO Milt Olin was recently killed by a police officer while riding his bicycle in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Digital Music News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You say that the music industry sued their fans, destroyed their goodwill, and failed to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}