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Songs of Innocence (U2 album that caused a furor when it appeared suddenly in the libraries of 500 million iTunes users) (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

I think that's the general consensus: the album was fine, but it was a potent reminder that peoples' iTunes catalogs were not actually their own, but controlled by corporations that can control our music at the flip of a switch. People did not like that feeling. So in a way, it was actually a net positive at the time, in reminding people of this fact. Unfortunately later on, people have moved to not owning music at all.