Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago

Post by coretx » Sat, Jun 01, 2024, 6:52 PM UTC

bawolff wrote: post #36

coretx wrote: post #16

Yet we still don't have a safe & resilient alternative for using Kademlia tables. Shame on us.

What's wrong with current generation DHT? They work. They are secure (depending on how you define that). They are reliable. Why would we want to replace them?

Post by acchow » Sat, Jun 01, 2024, 6:57 PM UTC

nvarsj wrote: post #29

mmh0000 wrote: post #15

Napster was such an improvement over what it replaced, but, it’s funny by today’s standards Napster was so “basic”. I remember waiting 3+ hours for a single song to download. Then discovering it wasn’t what I wanted but a troll who renamed the `Barney The Dinosaur I love you` song. Then I’d spend another 3+ hours downloading a different song. Ah 56k internet, what fun. Today, TPB and a quick search can give you an ar…

> What I find most strange about the modern day piracy is quality. For a lot of pirates, it's a niche hobby to preserve the best quality version of some media / art. I see it as an underground librarian archivist movement. In 100 years iTunes may be dead, but there will be some person with every album available in high quality lossless FLAC. Same with Netflix and it's bit starved encodes.

Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 » Sat, Jun 01, 2024, 7:16 PM UTC

acchow wrote: post #184

nvarsj wrote: post #29

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> What I find most strange about the modern day piracy is quality. For a lot of pirates, it's a niche hobby to preserve the best quality version of some media / art. I see it as an underground librarian archivist movement. In 100 years iTunes may be dead, but there will be some person with every album available in high quality lossless FLAC. Same with Netflix and it's bit starved encodes.

Still frustrated that 1080p bluray looks and sounds significantly better than 4k Netflix. Will a lot of quality stuff be lost forever when these companies disappear?

Post by mprev » Sat, Jun 01, 2024, 7:25 PM UTC

steve1977 wrote: post #109

logicchains wrote: post #108

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You could copy a book, and sell it. This was a big part of the Protestant revolution; the Catholic church didn't want the common people reading the Bible, but back then they had no legal way to control how people used the printing press.

The Bible is not copyrighted. So you could still do that today. Also I‘m pretty sure the catholic church wanted no one to read the Luther Bible. Neither common people nor others ;)

Post by echelon » Sat, Jun 01, 2024, 7:33 PM UTC

ethbr1 wrote: post #130

echelon wrote: post #82

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> GenAI can be great for pop art, but try to create something unique to you or another person, and it will fail miserably. GenAI is just a tool. Creating unique art with unique perspectives is going to be more accessible to more people. Not everyone will put the work in, but there's a new opportunity in a world full of opportunity cost.

I'd make the argument that the nature of tools drives much of mass/low-cost art (that is, the majority). Very few people have the training and complete skill set to fully customize everything. Consequently, the further you get away from "doing the thing" (e.g. playing an instrument) to "operating the tool that does the thing" (e.g. writing music for a player piano), the stronger impression the tool leaves on your wor…