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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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