Napster Piracy Lyrics Copyright 2000 Stephen Savitzky. CC by-nc-sa/4.0. To the tune of Barrett's Privateers by Stan Rogers 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. Online: http://Steve.Savitzky.net/Songs/napster/lyrics.txt Automatically generated with flktran from ../Lyrics/napster.flk.