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grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Napster was so early that most folks didn’t have the bandwidth and CPU speed to deal with decent-quality video yet, so it initially only did MP3s. I think some folks forget about it because they didn’t get into the piracy scene until they could get TV shows/movies/software etc.

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f314@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I vividly remember spending twenty minutes downloading a single song over my 56k modem 🥲

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MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
No, the real problem was that Napster had central servers that could easily be taken down via litigation. Limewire was fully P2P so there was no single point of failure.

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- grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That’s why Napster went away, but it didn’t stop it from being first to exist.
  
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JacksonLamb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I still have a few folders of music from Napster.

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- snake@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That belongs in a museum!
  
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  - JacksonLamb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    So do I.
    
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