[coopsmgoops]

And Spotify?

[gazab]

Yup. You could sometimes find scene release group names in the metadata when Spotify beta launched. They cleaned it up in the "great purge" where 90% of my playlists became empty :)

[sneak]

Now, these same sites that grew to prominence based on the efforts of pirates are now going to lengths to thwart them.

Is there a better example of pulling the ladder up behind you than this? I can't think of one.

[treeman79]

Hollywood is in California because film makers didn’t want to pay royalties to Edison on cameras.

[Red_Leaves_Flyy]

Nimby property and development laws?

[VectorLock]

The founders of Spotify were involved with BitTorrent clients so it was a natural extension.