I built and ran this website between 2000 and 2001, combining passion for popular music and programming. It was listed by MTV's now defunct MusicNewswire as one of the then nascent web's top twenty sources, alongside Billboard and VH1. The most exciting part of it — for a 13/14-year-old excited by new music — was receiving scores of pre-release CDs from record companies. The entire project was written entirely from scratch (frameworks and libraries were not the norm back then!) in PHP linking to a MySQL database, with HTML as well as a little CSS and JavaScript for the frontend; the code is available here.

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Napster Finally Defeated
13 February 2001 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

The controversial file-swapping programme, Napster has been shut down by a court in the US. It stated that Napster must stop trading in copyrighted material. The decision was on the side of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Directly after the ruling Napster founder Shawn Fanning and Napster CEO Hank Barry (both pictured above) held a press conference at the Park Hyatt Hotel in San Francisco. Hank Berry said that he was disappointed by the ruling, he said, "The Napster community is about the love of music. Napster community members love music and purchase far more CDs than most people.", he continued, "even if Napster file sharing is shut down while our trial is pending, we will do whatever we can to work within the limits of the injunction to continue to provide more than 50 million Napster community members access to music."

Metallica, who have fought against Napster said, "We have never objected to the technology, the Internet, or the digital distribution of music. All we have ever asked is that artists be able to control how, when and in what form their creativity is distributed through these channels."

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