Napster.com banned at some universities for clogging networks (2000)
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Napster.com banned at some universities for clogging networks (2000)
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Re: Napster.com banned at some universities for clogging networks (2000)
#2Back then we were moving a terabyte a week on one Hotline Server alone. Napster was already way way more popular (and accessible).
Re: Napster.com banned at some universities for clogging networks (2000)
#3Yes piracy is bad and all but as a college student, Napster was such as life saver. You could literally download any song you wanted to listen to. I also remember another application called Kazaa that was popular as well (circa 2000-2002ish)
Re: Napster.com banned at some universities for clogging networks (2000)
#4Back then we were moving a terabyte a week on one Hotline Server alone. Napster was already way way more popular (and accessible).
Ah, Hotline… 1998…
Re: Napster.com banned at some universities for clogging networks (2000)
#5Those were glorious days. To go from buying CDs to being able to find and download almost any song you could think of was amazing.
I loved the ability to discover artists I didn’t know about by looking through people’s collections. Such a great discovery feature.
It was all illegal, but it just an amazing time.
Re: Napster.com banned at some universities for clogging networks (2000)
#6Those were exciting times. I had dialup internet access back then. I spent a day hanging out with a friend who had a cable modem, downloading music all day long.
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#7There was something about piracy in the times of Napster, emule and the like. It really made you feel like you knew some incantation to get access to the whole world's information.
In practical terms, I have access to far more content now (music on Spotify, shows and movies on streaming services, tutorials, online classes, etc) and yet our reach doesn't seem as wide as it seemed in those times.
Perhaps it was just the jump from scarce physical media to digital abundance. Perhaps it's that I now feel like I'm being sold what others want to put on my plate, rather than stumbling on information by accident. Perhaps it's just nostalgia... but I feel we've lost something on the way, that we should have kept for the next generation.
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#8I was like, “Is Napster still a thing?” Then I saw 2000.
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#10Yes piracy is bad and all but as a college student, Napster was such as life saver. You could literally download any song you wanted to listen to. I also remember another application called Kazaa that was popular as well (circa 2000-2002ish)
And Limewire. I remember using Limewire to pirate Limewire Pro