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Josh Elman

Napster — All the music, all the time

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Ryan Hoover
I quietly downloaded DMX albums at ~2KB/s, concealing it deep within a series of multiple folders from my parents. I still love DMX.
Erik Torenberg
@rrhoover don't ask how, but i have free tickets to a DMX show in detroit in august 31 that i'm giving to friends . if only it were in SF
Ryan Hoover
@eriktorenberg WHAAATT!!!?? C'MON!!
Josh Elman
Hunter
It was incredible to access any song you wanted from anyone else. It was crowdsourced and social before those were things. It also turned out to be illegal by the RIAA and shut down. Music has never been the same though.
Noah Lichtenstein
@joshelman This was the subject of my Freshman paper at Stanford in 2001. Pretty embarrassing to go back and read this, but here it is anyhow "Napster: Champion of Free Exchange, Threat to Industry Conglomerates http://bootheprize.stanford.edu/...
Ryan Hoover
@Noah_L talk about nostalgia. Thankfully my HS/college papers aren't easy to find/lost to save me the embarrassment.
Bram Kanstein (@bramk)
Napster was my favorite product back in the day. I used to download all the new songs and burn CD's that I would sell at school voor $10, artwork on the cover everything
tom meagher
Can we get @sparker, @shawnfanning, or @john_fanning (the makers) on here to answer some questions?!
Adam Kazwell
Didn't need Napster because Scour.net and other FTP sites delivered the goods. Little known Scour fact: @travisk was part of its founding team: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sco....