How Two Kids Destroyed a $20 Billion Industry | Napster.com. The loss of physical media ownership.
How Two Kids Destroyed a $20 Billion Industry | Napster.com. The loss of physical media ownership.
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Napster was so sick. The halcyon days before the RIAA caught on were amazing. The real shame is we only had 56k phone modem connections!
When people started receiving dmca notices in the mail we could hardly believe it. End of an era. That was Clinton by the way.
The Internet was so different back then, before corporatization. There was so much promise in the thing. Now it's just another tool for business. Sad really.
The Internet was so different back then, before corporatization. There was so much promise in the thing. Now it's just another tool for business.
it went from a truly weird, unique, mostly anti-commercial and grass roots place to literally just another dying mall
honestly it was a dogshit with shitty rips and mislabeled files, but the RIAA's crackdown gave truly amazing BitTorrent sites where obsessive nerds got their chance to shine with their painstaking care to have quality rips, tagging, etc. and music fans could easily get rare and OOP albums
It was popular because MP3 sites kept getting taken down and it was much harder to shut down a P2P sharing service.
I agree that the mislabeled files sucked, but I probably wasn't the only one who got some amusement out of seeing just how many at school thought System of a Down did a Zelda song.
Every reggae song is by Bob Marley.
System_of_a_Down_-_Zelda.mp3
I never did find out if anyone ever took credit for that General MIDI + text-to-speech rendition of "Enter Sandman."
I remember OiNK and What.CD, got a lot of good music from there