SoundCloud Is Close to a Licensing Deal With Universal
Maybe Napster taught everyone a lesson. Music labels, especially the majors, were incredibly slow to adapt to the peer-to-peer piracy that became commonplace around the turn of the century. The RIAA went after consumers in wildly unpopular lawsuits; bands and musicians lashed out at their fans; record sales that had been at an all-time high suddenly plummeted, to the point where comparing sales fi