I disagree. It made copying of copywritten material easy and traceable. Further, it demonstrated that people were quite happy with mp3's and that there was a market for them. The iTunes store was industry's way of adapting to the new environment. That change was led by tech, not the music biz. But they did agree to it and did adapt.

I see Napster as nothing but a bad actor. Like someone who runs a "legal" tax haven. They don't contribute anything to society, but are able to find a way to skim a little off the top for themselves. Part of the Wall Street MBA mentality that pursuit of profit should be the end in itself.

through a unique apprenticeship model

Hmmmm... this sounds suspiciously like an internship or another way of saying "we won't pay you shit."

I'd say it did have an impact on capital in the music business. The amount of revenue and profit record labels earn as an industry is still less today than it was when Napster came out. Even with the success of iTunes, Amazon, Pandora, Spotify, etc. nobody makes as much money in music as they once did.

napster was a bootlegger site defended in court by antique technicality. it seems like capital adapted

music is still free on the internet. movies r all viewable in hd with cheap subscription services

attempts at socialism resulted in tens of millions of unnecessary deaths, and ur ideology survives, protected by a claim of distinction from the failed projects

observe the relative situations of workers in Schroeder's country - or Blair's for that matter - after his reforms and the workers in Latin Europe whose employment, where it exists, is protected by statute.