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By the p2p era (which napster was) they absolutely needed to do resumable downloads because a peer could suddenly go offline.
Before that I remember getting mp3s from ftp and irc fserves... Ftp definitely had resume, though not all clients and servers did it.
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By the p2p era (which napster was) they absolutely needed to do resumable downloads because a peer could suddenly go offline.
Before that I remember getting mp3s from ftp and irc fserves... Ftp definitely had resume, though not all clients and servers did it.