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I don't see how that negates what they said. If anything it bolsters it. YouTube went live in 1995, the DMCA wasn't passed into law until 1998.

• nostrademons 3y ago
  YouTube went live in 2005.
  • mrtranscendence 3y ago
    Having used the web in 1995 with a 56k modem, I find the idea of a period-appropriate "YouTube" somewhat amusing. I'm not even sure RealPlayer did video that early.
    • nostrademons 3y ago
      RealAudio was released in April 1995. If you listened to RealAudio files (files, because most modems couldn't stream them real-time), the quality was terrible though. I remember the very first MP3 I ever downloaded was a 3:50 song, about 4MB, and took about 2 hours to download. It actually took 2 days of wall-clock time, because my parents kept kicking me off the phone (thank goodness for ZMODEM). And then I found out that my computer (Mac Centris 660AV) was too slow to play it back real-time, so I set about decompressing it. And since it was a 40MB file and I didn't have 40MB space lying around (the whole hard disk was only 230MB), I set about backing up files to ZIP disk until I could. After about a week I finally had my audio file ready, and the experience was magical: near CD quality audio downloaded off the Internet.