Word: bootlegs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...suits are currently targeting the users who have the largest collections of files, generally 1000 or more. But even these students are not big fish for the industry to fry. These students are not trying to create a mass database of files to bootleg for profit but are simply interested in more songs for their own personal use and should not be targeted. Their only crime is tying up university networks with their high-traffic sharing, and individual universities—not the federal courts—should take action...
...Cent has a major edge over his aspiring killers, as well as most other emcees on the rise, like his executive producers Dr. Dre and Eminem. The latter signed 50 Cent onto the Shady/Aftermath label after Columbia Records dropped him for releasing bootleg records on the street and lampooning ostentatious musical celebrities...
...signed a deal with Columbia Records. (Jam Master Jay got a reported $50,000 of the $65,000 advance.) While Columbia spent the next two years figuring out how to market him, 50 marketed himself, releasing a bootleg single called How to Rob, in which he fantasized about ripping off every hip-hop star from Jay-Z to Mariah Carey. "Making that song was not a creative decision," he says. "People who sell a lot of records have a lot of diamonds and a lot of cars. I wanted those, but I also wanted to get those people's attention...
...make it more of what it already was. Niche culture continued to erode mainstream culture. Except for a few uniting events--the 9/11 anniversary, the opening weekend of Attack of the Clones--the mass market continued to fragment, with a digital cable channel and a bootleg Internet remix for every consumer, while the online version of real-life-simulation game The Sims promised players a chance to be virtually together, alone. The mainstream became more mainstream (that is, more reverent and safe); the niches got nichier (more outre and provocative). E pluribus, pluribus...
...life imitating Jay-Z’s “Girls, Girls, Girls,” self-styled “Super MC” Casey B. Weinstein ’03 dumped girlfriend Trish G. Fenster ’02 after he claimed “she kept bootlegging my shit.” Commented a distraught Fenster, “I don’t know what he’s talking about—it’s not like he makes CDs. Or tapes. Or anything that anyone, least of all me, could or would bootleg...