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An Oral History of LimeWire
- nyolfen 7y agoi would kill for that jacket
- jkingsbery 7y agoI have a LimeWire tshirt I got while interviewing there in early May 2010. I know a couple people that worked there, they always had good things to say about it.
- oh_sigh 7y agoDon't do it!
- defen 7y agoCraziest thing you saw happen at one of the parties?
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- Fnoord 7y agoNowadays you can design such online, by just uploading a picture or two. At least it is like that with t-shirts. Not sure about jackets specifically.
- nyolfen 7y agoyes, but it would probably be low quality and lack the magic of the real deal
- mnutt 7y agoThe jackets have the letters sewn on rather than printed on, but I think the person who ordered them just said “give me whatever green letters you have” which was why they weren’t on brand, and also part of the charm.
- andrew_ 7y agoThe case from 2010 would surely make for a fascinating retrospective today. I'd wager it hasn't aged well.
- mnutt 7y agoI took the office pictures that somehow found their way into the article. I thought LimeWire's efforts to build a music store were probably some of the less technically interesting things that went on there, and there's tons of interesting technical fodder, such as the P2P LimeWire update mechanism where the lead dev would sign an update, update his local LimeWire, join the network, and the update would spread virally. (and how they very nearly lost control of the network due to it) Or that LimeWire was ostensibly decentralized, but ran a set of centralized UDP host caches so that you could actually _find_ other peers when you joined the network.
- huhtenberg 7y ago> Photos courtesy Rochelle DiRe I take you are not Mrs DiRe.
- mnutt 7y agoNo, I don't remember specifically but I likely shared them with a bunch of people and after all we were LimeWire...
- Fnoord 7y agoWhy was it LimeWire, and not KaZaA (which had supernodes), or AudioGalaxy (which used the browser as UI), or SoulSeek (which I used; and had an amazing community). Not to mention eDonkey/eMule/DCPP and a whole slew more, such as BitTorrent. Or how about Usenet?
- weare138 7y agoAnd everyone wonders why we illegally downloaded so much music back then... From the article: 'The fact that users would “own” songs was the deal-breaker for a lot of the dinosaur record labels. I remember one meeting with a music label I won’t name, where the exec in the room basically told us, “If you listen to a Madonna song, I want you to pay us for that privilege. You never own music, you simply buy a license to consume that music at that moment. Next year, when you want to listen to that same song, I want you to pay us again. Thirty years from now, when your grandchildren want to listen to that Madonna song, I want them to pay us. You will never own this music, you only buy a temporary right to listen to that music at that moment, nothing more.”'