Current Events > Did you ever use Napster?

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Nah, I started learning how to pirate on Limewire and Kazaa

Nice try, Lars.

Yep. Still remember downloading songs on dial up internet. Me, my dad, and my sister were all on it. I skipped Limewire and went to Kazaa.

Oh fuck yeah. I specifically remember downloading Nelly - Country Grammar and LEN- Steal My Sunshine in 2000.

Yes. And afterwards, Kazaa.

napster was before my time online. my primary source of music online in the early 00s was windows music player (a lot of the media streamed was direct links to wma and mp3 files), directories of music i found on google later on, and the occasional fansite. most heavily listened to midi files in the mid-00s rather than mp3s, so those weren't hard to come by. briefly dabbled in filesharing software by way of frostwire in college (late 00s), but the quality variance bothered me. in my early college years i especially swore by imeem.

I used all of em. My grandmother's windows xp eMachines desktop is still running strong somehow

Phish - Gin n Juice
Bob Dylan - Stuck In the Middle With You

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I got into torrents for a while, mostly for older PC games that I couldn't find anywhere in the early 2010s. But by the mid-2010s it seemed like everything was on the internet somewhere. I could just google "movie title streaming" and a million websites would pop up that had it streaming, no download necessary. By then Steam or GOG had pretty much any PC game I would ever want to play too, so there wasn't really any need to pirate anymore. Past my teenage years the only things I would ever pirate were things I couldn't elsewhere, like if a show wasn't on a streaming service or an old game wasn't available anymore. If I could buy it, I usually would.

No, not specifically Napster

limewire

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Dude I had one of those mp3 CD players and it felt so fucking cool to be able to skip through my folders on a CD. I didn't have bluetooth in my car until around 2015, so until then those CDs were how I avoided listening to the radio for years.

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Same. Always had a mix of different genres.

And everybody would have CD binders full of CD-Rs and CD-RWs and their real ones too.

I used Limewire's sibling, Frostwire.

I used it a few times but not much.

I used Soulseek extensively in the mid 2000s though

soulseek was the best, i bet it still is.

these days i can afford what i like, though

No, because I'm not a thief and I don't steal.

This is no better than stealing from a store!

pikakaeru posted...

Yes. And afterwards, Kazaa.

Morpheus at some point too.

I was a freshman in college at the time so its sort of a blur.

Nope. Limewire, FrostWire and Bearshare are what I used back then

Yea I also used WinMX. It was a slower p2p I think but it felt safer than Kazaa or Kazaa lite.

Also it helped me to decide what cds I wanted to buy with my actual income at the time too.

Nah cuz I was too young and dumb to figure it out. I did use Limewire though. RIP even though it was full of viruses. "Eminem-LoseYourself.mp3.exe" that was only 50kb definitely wasn't a song lol

My cousin would use Kazaa all the time. idk what that was like though.

I also want to say that Limewire Pro being available to pirate through Limewire is the absolute funniest thing ever.

Napster>Morpheus>KaZAa>KaZAa Lite>Limewire>Frostwire

I've never used P2P sharing outside of AIM

Started on very early Napster and shared it with everyone. Moved on later to limewire frostwire. Never got a virus. Then soulseek mostly.

Nah, but I had a friend that used limewire that got me some stuff. He had better internet than I did.

What was frostwire? Was limewire open source and that was just some permutation of it?

Audiogalaxy was my jam

Took me 1/2 hr to download a 3 minute song sometimes longer. It was a time to be alive.

Kamil posted...

Took me 1/2 hr to download a 3 minute song sometimes longer. It was a time to be alive.

And then you downloaded it, and it was just that clip of Bill Clinton saying he didn't have sexual relations with that woman, and you gotta find another one

limewire

DKBananaSlamma posted...

What was frostwire? Was limewire open source and that was just some permutation of it?

I don't know what the actual difference was, I just know I used it for pr0n.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGM8PT1eAvY

Yeah everyone used it when I was in high school

so many kids at my school were paranoid that they were gonna get in trouble from police if they got pulled over with burned CDs in their car

Yes and got banned in the Metallica/Dr Dre purge

DKBananaSlamma posted...

What was frostwire? Was limewire open source and that was just some permutation of it?

IIRC, FrostWire started as a secondary thing after the RiAA came after several p2p programs, including LimeWire. Same devs

Yes and how they were able to switch to a paid subscription service was so weird

yes, though I started in AOL chat rooms first, lol.

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codey posted...

Nah, I started learning how to pirate on Limewire and Kazaa

Me too.

Very briefly. I didn't get into it until Kazaa/Kazaa Lite and Limewire.

DKBananaSlamma posted...

What was frostwire? Was limewire open source and that was just some permutation of it?

So originally Limewire was completely free. Eventually free and premium versions were released. The free was ad supported, and like Kazaa lite, this spawned Frostwire a fork/version. Ads like this were seen as adware/malware and were not accepted like they are today. There were other reasons as well.