Much can be said about the ever-changing business of music since the so-called “copyright wars” began, but one thing is certain: ordinary music users are much more copyright conscience than they’ve ever been. There are now entire colleges, such as Belmont University’s College of Entertainment and Music Business, dedicated to the education of music business and copyright law. Major record labels are partnering with music-streaming companies like Pandora and Spotify to perpetuate alternatives to illegal file sharing. Even a federal district judge in New York awarded DMX, a leading provider of commercial music services, the right to pay lower and variable performance licenses to BMI based on direct licensing arrangements with certain publishers.

I think everybody can remember the first time they heard about Napster. It was the shot