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BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
We all on here pretending Napster wasn’t the OG? The transition to kazaa was painful.
We all on here pretending Napster wasn’t the OG? The transition to kazaa was painful.
Napster was feature poor though. CuteMX was much, much better and out while Napster was still running, but it closed down after Napster lost the court case. Feature set was closer to Kazaa, including filters and being able to browse a user’s shares.
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.
I vividly remember spending twenty minutes downloading a single song over my 56k modem 🥲
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.
That’s why Napster went away, but it didn’t stop it from being first to exist.
I still have a few folders of music from Napster.
That belongs in a museum!
So do I.
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 27 minutes ago
I originally started with eMule