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    Wie LimeWire die Napster-Musikrevolution beendete

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    1. risingsilvers on

      Napster ended the utopia we had sharing music in IRC channels by introducing piracy to normies.

    2. bascule on

      > Quick: tell me how old you are by telling me which app you used to download free music. Was it Napster? Kazaa? Usenet? Gnutella? WinMX? Morpheus? The Pirate Bay?

      CTCP/DCC bots on IRC

    3. Deranged40 on

      I’m here for the hit of nostalgia. Is the story really just the middle paragraph? Or am I missing something?

    4. pr1aa on

      Instant flashbacks of trying to find the legit shares among the endless `Linkin_Park_New_Song_2005.mp3.exe`s

      Not to mention porn and shock videos disguised as movies

    5. Gracien on

      Where I’m from, Kazaa was in every teenager’s home until it was replaced by Limewire. But before Kazaa, WinMX was quite popular.

    6. sh41reddit on

      Who else remembers the Legend of Zelda theme song by System of A Down lmao

    8. snakeoilsalesman3 on

      Aah limewire, it helped me finish dragon ball z in real media format as a kid who’s network never went beyond the freiza saga…

    9. generalgriffin90 on

      Please tell me it wasn’t just my friends and I that saw every search you made but with „has shaking orgasm“ on the end.

      System of a down arials has shaking orgasm on webcam.exe

      To this day my friends and I still drop jokes about it.

    13. bluehawk232 on

      I was still on 56k dial up so i could only download small stuff but my friends that were on cable often burned cds with files they got from napster and limewire. Typing all that out my bones hurt now and i should go into a nursing home

    15. PeckerTraxx on

      I got a full version of AutoCAD 2002 off LimeWire. My CAD professor was boggled I had it on my laptop and asked where I got it. Told him my dad had the full version.

    16. KS2Problema on

      >Quick: tell me how old you are by telling me which app you used to download free music. Was it Napster? Kazaa? Usenet? Gnutella? WinMX? Morpheus? The Pirate Bay? Were you, I don’t know, sending your friends songs on AIM or BBM? The possibilities are endless. For a decade or so, if you were online, you were probably stealing music.

      Actually,  from 1998, for a couple years, I got my free music the right way, from other musicians who had made their music available for free on the original  mp3[dot]com.

      In addition to busy servers laden with music of all sorts and levels of professionalism (and lack thereof), there were very active bulletin boards where people vied for attention, argued about music – and intellectual property – not to mention music technology, songwriting, and other topics of current interest. 

      The music was all free and the then owners sweetened the pot for musicians for a while by paying a couple pennies per ‚full‘ download (as opposed to simply streaming a low bit rate MP3; full downloads were only 128 kbps, but at that point getting music over the wire still seemed pretty magical) and being able to choose from thousands of different tracks was pretty brilliant. 

      I made a number of friends in the discussion boards there, and I’m still friends with more than a couple of them more than a quarter of a century later. I wonder how many Limewire  scofflaws can say that?

    18. WastelandOutlaw007 on

      LimeWire didnt end Napster

      Getting song names and band names blocked so they could no longer be searched for did.

      Made it almost useless, and people went seeking alternatives

    19. YourMetsiah on

      I still remember downloading „A Milli“ by Lil Wayne on Limewire before school and putting it on my iPod nano without listening to it.

      Threw the song on while on the train and it was the „Ding Dong Song“ by Günther 😢

    20. JosephFinn on

      We learned we could pay for things at a reasonable price and that killed piracy.

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