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Re:Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago by teleforce on Saturday June 01, 2024 @06:11PM (#40549500)
Napster is p2p done right, it's a game changer that the music industry was only saved by listening to Apple (read Steve) and doing that catapulted Apple to the first Trillion dollar company in history. It's so good that Metalica members were loosing their sleeps over it. For personally one of the best software I have used of more than 30 years using computer and it's fit for purpose metric was second to none.

Mate, it only takes a few minutes downloading mp3 song that's only a few MBytes, unless you are using dial-up or ADSL connection further down the road from the residential switch.

Re:Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago by nullsmack on Monday June 03, 2024 @03:01PM (#40566200)
Only people in major cities had fast internet back then. The vast vast majority of people had 56k dialup or slower.