Oh the year was Nineteen Ninety Eight
How I wish I was on Freenet now
When people first heard of MP3 And music out on the Web for free.
God damn them all! I was told
You download all your computer can hold
We'd take our music and pay no fee
Now I owe three years' pay in royalty
Because of Napster piracy
Shawn Fanning he wrote a program kewl
How I wish I was on Freenet now
A fairly trivial piece of code For sharing files from node to node
But the clever part was the Napster site
How I wish I was on Freenet now
Where people could trade their songs for free And pay not a nickle of royalty.
So I got a big disk and a cable line
How I wish I was on Freenet now
Then I logged on and began to get The biggest collection on the net
There were thousands of songs there up for grabs
How I wish I was on Freenet now
I was hooked up in one of the fastest ways But to fill a hundred gig took two whole days
At length they were sued by RIAA
How I wish I was on Freenet now
They said ``You have done us many wrongs To go and make copies of all our songs.''
But Napster said ``There's no music here.''
How I wish I was on Freenet now
``We're a kind of search engine, don't you know. (Our users may have some trouble, though)''
So it looks like Napster may get off clean
How I wish I was on Freenet now
I laughed 'til the summons came down for me And the charge they made was piracy.
Well I learned my lesson and paid my fine
How I wish I was on Freenet now
But they can't take my MP3's away 'Cause I got Gnutella yesterday.
http://thestarport.com/Steve_Savitzky/Songs/napster.html
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