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Napster vs LimeWire
Which download den defined Y2K music piracy — Napster or LimeWire?
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Napster (1999-2001) kicked off the MP3 revolution and got sued into oblivion by the record industry. LimeWire (2000-2010) picked up the torrent, a Gnutella client where every download was a gamble between a real song and a virus mislabeled as one. The soundtrack of a generation, one 3 KB/s transfer at a time.
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Tale of the tape
🐱 Napster
- Era
- 1999-2001
- Tech
- Peer-to-peer
🍋 LimeWire
- Era
- 2000-2010
- Tech
- Gnutella P2P
Old Internet & Mix standing
Full leaderboard →Napster
#29 / 50
1500 ELO
LimeWire
#30 / 50
1500 ELO
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