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You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE (lemmy.world)
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[–] 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

We all on here pretending Napster wasn't the OG? The transition to kazaa was painful.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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.

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