> If Napster wasn’t peer-to-peer but it did let you type the name of a song and then listen to it, it would have been just as popular. This is a very effective

> If Napster wasn’t peer-to-peer but it did let you type the name of a song and then listen to it, it would have been just as popular. This is a very effective statement. Today p2p for music is certainly alive but has greatly been surpassed by services like YouTube and Spotify (and Rdio, sadly dead before it’s time). One is ad supported, the others paid. But they all just let the user search and listen. Popcorn Time has done this for movies and tv. It’s purely p2p. Disliked by content owners, but they’ve largely failed to provide the same kind of universal search and watch functionality that the app provides. Hulu, Netflix, Apple+, Disney+, insert other streaming services. They all basically fail at usable search and recommendation usability and have limited overall content.