Word: napstering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Until then, the free-tune grab is still on, as long as you stay one step ahead of the lawyers. After Mp3.com, Napster, after Napster, Gnutella, after Gnutella, iMesh, after iMesh, tijuanatunes.com...
...normally an absolute moral rock. Just ask anybody here at TIME.com. Just three months ago, in the time I now sadly recognize as Before the Fall, I was an innocent, and pure, and un-Napstered. This was mainly because it was difficult for me to get Napster; we have a vicious and unyielding corporate firewall here at 1271 Avenue of the Americas, and I was using a World War II surplus dial-up modem at home...
...moral qualms about Napster, and I didn't think of it as stealing. I liked the idea of it, even if I was too lazy to try it myself. I had the same relationship to Napster that the American Left used to have to socialism: In theory, it should work like a charm...
...Perhaps it's because I work in a medium, HTML text posted on web servers, that was Napstered before there was a Napster, but it didn't worry me. From day one, anyone who read my writings on TIME.com was free to copy and e-mail copies to 10 friends. You could do it right now. In fact, why don't you? Good luck is sure to follow for all your days...
...What are the ethics of Napster, anyway? Is it wrong to, say, listen to a friend's Supertramp album (aesthetics aside, that is)? Say your friend bought a copy of "Breakfast in America" years ago, back when people mistakenly thought Roger Hodgson was cool. Say your friend wanted to share this ugly chapter in his life by playing "The Logical Song" for you. Is it wrong for you to listen to this song, even though you personally didn't pay for it? I think...