On 13 April , Metallica filed a lawsuit against Napster for copyright infringement, racketeering and unlawful use of digital audio interface devices at a district court in Northern California. Metallica then tracked down the names of , Napster users who had shared their music and asked Napster to ban them from the service which Napster did.
None of these defences worked and record executives spent four or five crucial years losing serious business to Napster before Steve Jobs came along with the iTunes Store. Napster was the beginning, but by no means the end of the digital revolution. It then tried to turn the service into a subscription model, but the lure of free music was too much. Music sales tumbled as result. What Napster did more than anything, Knopper says, was to correctly identify that the future of music was online, and not in racks of metal and plastic.
That lengthy waiting period almost destroyed the business, until streaming came to the rescue years later. Napster, weighed down with legal bills, struggled to survive; in June it filed for bankruptcy and its assets were later liquidated. The Napster name was eventually taken by music provider Rhapsody, who now trade internationally under the Napster name. But in its wake came YouTube, iTunes and Spotify, digital-only environments that changed the way we consumed music.
Importantly, all of them — either through subscription, adverts or licensing — deliver money back to the music labels. Would the music industry have had to survive a less damaging decade if it had embraced Napster instead of seeing it as an enemy? Note that I'm not endorsing the illegal downloading of music, I'm just saying call it what it is Introduction: Download Napster Songs for Free.
Did you make this project? Share it with us! I Made It! Remote Control Light Switch by alanmerritt in Arduino. Reply Upvote. Gun Fun 12 years ago on Introduction. It can work on ipods right? Mosselman 13 years ago on Introduction. For instance, why are 4 chicks in stupid white heels dressing up Sam Flynn? And what's up with having a night club? What the heck does all that have to do with programs living in a computer?
Tron 2 did not really compute for me. I think Disney thought they'd pull the wool over our eyes with a crappy story wrapped in slick graphics and Daft Punk music. Am afraid that I am not that shallow.
I wouldn't recommend this movie, but if you are not from the old generation, then you will most probably love this movie and music. R 99 min Action, Horror, Sci-Fi. After outrunning a typhoon at sea, a strong-willed tugboat navigator and her crew discover a high-tech alien life form that's taken control of a Russian research vessel and aims to destroy on a massive scale.
I can't believe I forgot to add this old movie to my list! That's where it hacks into the ships electronics and takes over. From then onwards, the movie jumps into Chain Saw Massacre mode because self-aware computers and humans don't mix. There may or may not be a cyborg in it.
What seemed like a breezy idea for an engineer to net him millions of dollars, leaves him on the run for his life and piecing together why he's being chased.
Mildly related to hacking Ben Affleck plays the role of a hardware hacker or reverse engineer. He gets into some serious trouble after completing one of his longest and highest paid assignment. The movie revolves around puzzle solving and I ain't revealing any more because it's the kind of movie you watch once, get it and move on. R min Crime, Drama, Mystery. Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker.
Even though the original version is by far the best, visuals can be very important to set you in the mood for a good hacker movie. This movie is not truly about hacking, more historical crime solving which these days require a Mac and Google search. The main actress plays the role of a butch goth orphan rogue expert hacker. Some rough PG scenes in that movie, be warned.
As for the hackings, you the viewer interprete what she's doing as hacking and the movie director gets away with skipping over what kind of hacking she's doing.
PG min Biography, Drama. As Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea, and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.
So this movie falls in the "Tech" side of my list, not hacking even though there's a minuscule bit of that when Zuckerberg creates a girl comparison website. This movie is about Facebook and how the idea wasn't really Zuckerberg's. This movie tells you the interesting Facebook story by juggling scenes from the Winklevoss and Eduardo Saverin depositions. I feel very sad for Saverin, it must have been an unpleasant life experience to have known and worked with Zuckerberg.
I hope people will also take from this movie that dropping out of university is not such a bad thing! It's not the end of the world. Otherwise you work hard for 3 or 4 years and end up with a clogged up brain and no real-life skills. Best to get an idea and be first to market! If it fails, go back to uni. They want your money, they will take you back.
TV-MA 27 min Comedy. In Silicon Valley, the right algorithm can make you a king. And these four friends think they've finally cracked the code. Votes: 2, Betas is about a group of young programmers who are forming a start-up. I've reached episode 4 and I think I will stop watching this fakery. Completely pointless. Not Rated 93 min Documentary.
A documentary on the workings and beliefs of the self-described "hacktivist" collective, Anonymous. Votes: 10, Not Rated 79 min Documentary, News. A documentary that exposes what corporations and governments learn about people through Internet and cell phone usage, and what can be done about it The government will say that it is to monitor terrorists but very often it's regular citizens like you and me who fall prey to their dumb red-flag systems.
This documentary isn't very technical. I hope they do a sequel because in my view, there's a lot more to say on this topic and they need to go in way more technical details. R 94 min Comedy. A thirty-five-year-old video game tester has to move in with his grandma and her two old lady roommates. I didn't initially add this movie to my list because it's to do with game testers but on second thought, games are technology too so it should be in the list.
In this movie, a pot-head game tester the bald guy from Little Nicky. Yes, am not kidding, it's him! This movie is a mix of game testing and generous helpings of pot-head humour. It's very light-hearted. Think of it as watching "American Pie" style movies.
While Microsoft may be the biggest software company in the world, not every computer user is a fan of their products, or their way of doing business. While Microsoft's Windows became the Director: J. Stallman , Eric Raymond , Bruce Perens. Please don't equate open-source community to hippy vegans but in the computing industry.
They are very real and important part of our IT ecosystem. So two sides of this movement pre Internet bubble - Y2K era. Three part documentary series that tells the story of the birth of the personal computer, with the candid recollections of PC pioneers, like Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Stars: Robert X. Votes: 1, A great piece of investigation of the early OS industry, brilliantly researched and put together by none other than Robert Cringely!
This pre-dates the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley ," so you might want to see Cringely's documentary first. This documentary will no doubt be watched for decades to come by nerds all over the world!
Just wished Cringely did an unpdated, post-Y2K, p version of this. Netflix are you reading this? Not Rated 95 min Biography, Drama, History.
Votes: 24, Spoiler-alert: How Apple stole the user-interface and mouse from Xerox, Microsoft stole these from Apple and then took over the world. It's kind of yucky how Microsoft has a history of latching itself on a host and then sucks the life out of it. Poor, poor Nokia!
The story of Steve Jobs ' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century. Didn't learn a thing from this that I didn't know from the previous Apple or Steve Jobs docu-movies.
Actually this one had the chance to cover iPod, iPhone and iPad era but it didn't. It stuck to the old script of original Macintosh, the Lisa and hiring of that Pepsi guy. What was new was the hiring of that British designer who designed the see-through iMac or something.
The Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and other experts give their views on the rise, fall and come back of Apple with Steve Jobs at the helm. BBC documentary released right after Steve Jobs died. It retraces his life before and during Apple - the highs and lows. The end is quite touching it's the Stanford speech. PG min Action, Crime, Thriller. After being betrayed and left for dead in Italy, Charlie Croker and his team plan an elaborate gold heist against their former ally.
Director: F. Seth Green is "The Napster" and the hacker of this group of thieves. If you are into carefully calculated heists involving cars and hacking traffic lights and other systems, then you will like this movie.
I only watched it because gorgeous Charlize Theron played in it! She's so good. Watch "Monster " if you don't believe how talented and versatile she is. R min Horror, Sci-Fi. Am only adding this because it deals with virtual reality, but it is a pathetic movie. I remember watching it as a kid and thinking "why are the graphics so lame? The director should weigh this decision against "how convincing the CGI will look now and 10 years from now.
This is what am talkin' about! PG min Comedy, Crime, Drama. A security pro finds his past coming back to haunt him, when he and his unique team are tasked with retrieving a particularly important item.
This old movie is kinda thin on hacking -- turns out it's more of a spy movie but since I listed Disclosure , I cannot not list Sneakers. Sneakers starts with the arrest of a hacker but not his friend who by a stroke of luck went to buy pizzas. Years later, the one who got away and his new friends are tasked to find an electronic blackbox.
But when they discover that this box is a universal decryption box i. It's very interesting movie despite its age. It's akin to watching first Home Alone movie. A computer programmer stumbles upon a conspiracy, putting her life and the lives of those around her in great danger. Thanks to " Smitty Perceptor" for his suggestion. I only recently got hold of this old movie and am happy to list it here. This movie depicts the early days and therefore fears of computerisation and growth of the internet -- i.
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