When reading How Music Got Free one of the things that struck me was just how easy it actually was to pirate songs, and how far we’ve come from the late nineties to now. The fact that the ipod itself, something that I would pay $1.29 per song for (or .99 if the song wasn’t popular at the time) could hold illegally downloaded music is something I never knew. The fact that the music industry was actively partnering with and selling a device that easily hold songs that were stolen from them, that they were basically giving people who illegally downloaded something that they made a lot of money off of is just really funny to me. Morris basically gave up, said “whatever” and decided to just sue kids instead of going after the leak, which again, is really funny, but also extremely unfortunate for the people who were prosecutes for it. Between this and the backlash from the Hubcap lawsuit, it’s no wonder to me that itunes and similar sites are simply dying out. Streaming services have risen up in their place as the source of most of my and my friends’ music listening, as well as audio off of youtube. I personally use Spotify, which I don’t have to pay a cent for as long as I have wifi and listen to ads every now and then, which I’m perfectly okay with as opposed to paying $1.29 per song I buy. If I don’t want to listen to ads or want to listen without wifi I can just pay for premium, which is $5 a month. I don’t think the file sharers of the nineties would have thought at the time this would be an actual service one day, but I’m glad it’s here and I hope they are too.