Amaya Toman With the start of a new week, our regular series on historical events in the field of technology also returns. This time we will remind you of the photo shoot at Microsoft or perhaps the lawsuit against the legendary Napster service.
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Photoshoot at Microsoft (1978)
Although this event in itself was not essential for the development of technology, we will mention it here for the sake of interest. On December 7, 1978, a photo shoot of the main team took place at Microsoft. Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood, Paul Allen, Bob O'Rear, Bob Greenberg, Marc McDonald, Gordon Letwin, Steve Wood, Bob Wallace and Jim Lane are posing in the picture below this paragraph. It is also interesting that the employees of Microsoft decided to repeat the picture in 2008 on the occasion of the approaching departure of Bill Gates. But Bob Wallace, who died in 2002, was missing from the second version of the photo.
The Napster Lawsuit (1999)
On December 7, 1999, the popular P2P service called Napster had been in operation for only six months, and its creators had already faced their first lawsuit. This was filed by the Recording Industry Association of America, which decided to file a lawsuit against Napster and all those who funded the service in federal court in San Francisco. The trial dragged on for a relatively long time, and in 2002 federal judges and an appeals court agreed that Napster was liable for copyright infringement because it allowed millions of users around the world to download music for free.
