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re: Napster sold for $207 million….in 2025

Posted on 3/25/25 at 11:45 am to
Posted by CunningLinguist
Dallas, TX
Member since Mar 2006
19170 posts
Posted on 3/25/25 at 11:45 am to
quote:

kazaa


That was my jam. That and Limewire were my entertainment at LSU besides substance abuse.
Posted by DrewTheEngineer
Baton Rouge (Oak Hills)
Member since Jun 2006
1239 posts
Posted on 3/25/25 at 1:18 pm to
quote:

Napster


Damn you, Lars Ulrich
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
133612 posts
Posted on 3/25/25 at 1:23 pm to
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anybody remember BearShare.


Sounds like a site where burly gay men swapped nudes
Posted by tigerfan84
Member since Dec 2003
26065 posts
Posted on 3/25/25 at 1:25 pm to
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Damn you, Lars Ulrich


Posted by Clyde Tipton
Planet Earth
Member since Dec 2007
40594 posts
Posted on 3/25/25 at 1:41 pm to
The funny thing about Napster was eventually you stopped looking for specific songs and started downloading weird stuff just to see what it was.

A few that come to my mind...

The Devil Went Down to Jamaica
Sesamea Street

And of course the "Gin and Juice" cover incorrectly attributed to Phish when it was actually done by The Stringed Cheese Incident. (That cost me a $10 bet in college)
Posted by SteelerBravesDawg
Member since Sep 2020
43337 posts
Posted on 3/25/25 at 2:28 pm to
I had a full folder of Napster downloads on my PC in college in 2000.

Those were the days. Lars Ulrich can get fricked.
Posted by dukke v
PLUTO
Member since Jul 2006
216173 posts
Posted on 3/25/25 at 2:32 pm to
Nobody here had WinMX??? I loaded thousands of songs from there. Then my computer died. A very sad day.
Posted by Pettifogger
I don't really care, Margaret
Member since Feb 2012
86127 posts
Posted on 3/25/25 at 2:43 pm to
quote:

And of course the "Gin and Juice" cover incorrectly attributed to Phish when it was actually done by The Stringed Cheese Incident. (That cost me a $10 bet in college)


Narrator: It was The Gourds
Posted by Thracken13
Aft Cargo Hold of Serenity
Member since Feb 2010
18562 posts
Posted on 3/25/25 at 2:47 pm to
so they bought Lyle from the Italian Job? i figured he would have been set after he bought the stereo that would block women's clothing off
Posted by CR4090
Member since Apr 2023
8317 posts
Posted on 3/25/25 at 2:49 pm to
uTorrent
Posted by SPEEDY
2005 Tiger Smack Poster of the Year
Member since Dec 2003
87208 posts
Posted on 3/25/25 at 2:51 pm to
Posted by boxcarbarney
Above all things, be a man
Member since Jul 2007
25766 posts
Posted on 3/25/25 at 2:53 pm to
quote:

Many a burned CD back in the day from that website.



Back in the day we still had dial up internet. I'd queue a bunch of songs to download overnight while we slept. When I woke up maybe half of them would actually download.

I'd queue up the ones that didn't download when I left for class.
Posted by Friendly Satan
Member since Nov 2024
1321 posts
Posted on 3/25/25 at 2:59 pm to
Is that a Wesley Willis reference?!
Posted by Friendly Satan
Member since Nov 2024
1321 posts
Posted on 3/25/25 at 3:02 pm to
AudioGalaxy

ThePirateBay
Posted by LanierSpots
Sarasota, Florida
Member since Sep 2010
69955 posts
Posted on 3/25/25 at 3:03 pm to
quote:

Nobody here had WinMX??? I loaded thousands of songs from there. Then my computer died. A very sad day.



I have a a backup drive that has 20K songs on it that I downloaded from Napster. I had a computer in my office that worked day and night for a looooong time bringing those files aboard. I remember que'ing up a list of of tunes at night and being soo happy the next morning when 15 got successfully downloaded.


I have not looked at it in years . I have no idea what is even on that thing anymore. Tons of 70s and 80;s albums


Posted by Scruffy
Kansas City
Member since Jul 2011
76603 posts
Posted on 3/25/25 at 3:08 pm to
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LimeWire "videos" that took hours/days to download, finally finishing, leaving me with huge anticipation, and it's a grainy video of nasty people.
It was the anticipation, not the outcome.
Posted by Jim Hopper
Ocean Springs Mississippi
Member since Sep 2019
4422 posts
Posted on 3/25/25 at 3:15 pm to
Datpiff.com
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
70849 posts
Posted on 3/25/25 at 5:21 pm to
Lost a couple of loyal eMachine towers to P2P music sharing back in the day. You knew you were a dead man walking when you downloaded that Eminem track and it was silent upon playback.

Posted by rintintin
Life is Life
Member since Nov 2008
16982 posts
Posted on 3/25/25 at 6:49 pm to
quote:

And of course the "Gin and Juice" cover incorrectly attributed to Phish


Limewire was directly responsible for a ton of songs being attributed to the wrong artists in everyday culture.

It was like fake news before fake news.
Posted by sportsaddit68
Hammond
Member since Sep 2008
6449 posts
Posted on 3/25/25 at 7:02 pm to
quote:

Sesamea Street


Kermit the frog here. Today's letter is Joint.

Umm Kermit, joint is not a letter.
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