Napster Is Back, and It Wants to Digitally Clone Teachers
date linked: 18 September 2026
source: link to article, from wired.com
This would be gross under any name, but pivoting Napster from a service that challenged intellectual property norms and got slapped down to a service that builds on normalized exploitation of digital labor feels pretty indicative of everything right now.
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