Fast: inform me how outdated you’re by telling me which app you used to obtain free music. Was it Napster? Kazaa? Usenet? Gnutella? WinMX? Morpheus? The Pirate Bay? Had been you, I don’t know, sending your mates songs on AIM or BBM? The probabilities are infinite. For a decade or so, in the event you have been on-line, you have been in all probability stealing music.
For this episode of Model Historical past, we’re telling the story of one of many final huge names in file sharing: LimeWire. If the period of mainstream entry to free music (totally on faculty campuses and different quick networks) begins with Napster, it nearly definitely ends with LimeWire.
LimeWire was, in some ways, designed particularly not to be Napster, with designs on one thing far more reliable and business-focused. The corporate tried again and again to determine find out how to generate income, and to create one thing that really sounds so much like music streaming, nevertheless it grew to become embroiled in the identical battle that had been raging for a decade. As soon as Grokster went down, LimeWire by no means actually had an opportunity. And in addition to, a wholly new manner of listening to music was proper across the nook.
That is the sixth episode of Model Historical past. (We’re greater than midway by season one!) If you wish to discover the present, there are three good locations to go:
Because of everybody who has already watched or listened to the present, and has despatched suggestions! We’re simply about to begin manufacturing on the subsequent bunch of episodes, and wish to hear every little thing you suppose we must be doing or not doing or doing in another way. And we wish to hear from you about every little thing we’re planning to cowl! Within the meantime, if you wish to know extra about all issues LimeWire, listed below are some hyperlinks to get you began: