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From that article: "The Architecture Astronauts will say things like: "Can you imagine a program like Napster where you can download anything, not just songs?"

• digi_owl 11y ago
  Even Napster was used for non-music stuff towards the end, by renaming archives as mp3. And the basic protocol was later adopted for more generic sharing systems, never mind the number of clones that came about after Napster was lawyer bombed. Bittorrent is just the latest in a long string of P2P systems, with the biggest difference being the lack of a central search server.
  • Aloisius 11y ago
    Yeah, I remember we had to put an MP3 frame checker in the app to help prevent them from being shared. We had enough legal trouble with just the music industry suing us.
  • dzhiurgis 11y ago
    The next replacement Soulseek is still very alive today.