Fast: inform me how previous 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 countless. 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 Version History, we’re telling the story of one of many final large 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 virtually definitely ends with LimeWire.
LimeWire was, in some ways, designed particularly not to be Napster, with designs on one thing way more reliable and business-focused. The corporate tried time and again to determine become profitable, and to create one thing that really sounds loads like music streaming, nevertheless it turned embroiled in the identical combat that had been raging for a decade. As soon as Grokster went down, LimeWire by no means actually had an opportunity. And apart from, 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:
Due to everybody who has already watched or listened to the present, and has despatched suggestions! We’re simply about to begin manufacturing on the next bunch of episodes, and wish to hear all the pieces you suppose we ought to be doing or not doing or doing otherwise. And we wish to hear from you about all the pieces we’re planning to cowl! Within the meantime, if you wish to know extra about all issues LimeWire, listed here are some hyperlinks to get you began: