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The music world was forever changed when an American teenager named Shawn Fanning started Napster in his dorm room. In doing so, he triggered a momentous shift in how media is consumed everywhere.
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Cancelling of frequencies is a property of physics, not a flaw in our hearing system.
I can proudly say I bought ONE music CD in my entire life!!
I came to study in the US on 2000. And I found out about Napster in the dorms! Then I'm like I can maybe find music from my home country, Morocco and other Arab music. To my surprise I found almost everything I was looking for. Napster was alive and kicking it in so many countries. People from Morocco, Egypt, Syria….were sharing stuff too. Imagine my feelings back then when I found something that I connect with in a time where no Skype or whatsapp or youtube existed! Really Really 😎
Why nobody talks about the way poor people like me used to reproduce mp3's on slow machines of that age: Winamp. I had a Pentium 100 Mhz that I plugged to my also old stereo and then I had digital music reproduction on the cheap.
And here i was expecting a video about a classic video game series by Looking Glass. Still watched
justin timberlake needs to reprise his role as sean parker in a movie about napster directed by no other than DAVID FINCHER! nd written by aaron sorkin it'd be fucking epic
People like to blame file sharing for the downfall of the mainstream music industry, but there's more to the story. There were other factors.
• Record labels were charging nearly twice as much for a CD over a cassette, just because they thought they could. In the late 90s, list prices for CDs were pushing $19. Big box stores were selling CDs below cost as a traffic driver because they were so expensive.
• Record labels stopped releasing singles for their top artist as a way of forcing the customer to buy the full album (remember the Da da da song?)
• Record labels put their focus on "entertainment" acts over actual music and musicians. One and done artist were the focus over long term, multi album acts.
• Radio was deregulated. This allowed only 2 companies to buy the vast majority of ALL radio stations, destroying the regional diversity of local markets.
• The 'loudness wars' destroyed the act of log term listening, and cheapened experience of listening to a full album over a single song.
• Pitch correction, and beat detection continue to churn out machine garbage devoid of the humanity music was meant to express.
it's as if the industry holds hostility for their consumers. When they began suing their own customers for downloading "Happy Birthday", it became impossible to see their perspective.
Now it just simply googling and download/stream lol
The forerunner of the blockchain
Sorry but we should move on to the next one like cellphone 😁
Absolutely amazing!
The 2020 USA Presidential election was stolen from the American people!
awesome
This is software not an app
I got 1 word. I did not have sexual relations with that woman ….if your old and had liewire u know. U just know. Lol
The poor stealing from the rich 👍
Retired pirate here ✋🏴☠️
That DanTsharif guy sure did weasel out when asked about his role in stealing other people’s property.
Napster was just the digital medium of already existing piracy.
Pirated CDs and tapes are always available around block.
When internet become more accessible to everyone, Impact of Napster was tremendous. But still it didnt do much impact to the industry as they claim.
Most of fans were loyal and buying CDs and stuffs.
Via napster's hype, These big music labels just got to know another way of making more money via internet.
Apple and other streaming services followed later on.
The music industry is partly to blame because they promoted cd's heavily as better than vinyl and sold them for way more than vinyl even though the sound was usually worse and cd's cost less to make.That's why they were making so much more money in the 90's.
10:16 my question would have been; did you realise that you were in the beginning to revolutionising the way that music would be distributed 20 – 25 years from now?
Movie now!
This is so frign interesting
Hilary Rosen aged better than anything else in this video.
FUCK LARS
I was the first in my neighborhood showing other kids how to use Napster 😂
😭
9:56 I see some After Forever, Ayreon
The guy behind Napster was from my hometown apparently
I lived thru this era and don't remember seeing Sean Parker anywhere, it was Shawn Fanning everywhere on MTV, magazines, etc… the first I heard of that goofy mf'er Sean Parker was when The Social Network came out
Fuck the music industry. Thank you for inventing .MP3
So an MP3 that hasn't been modified is what type of file? I want to find some music that has not been shrunk down so all of those bits and pieces that the human ear supposedly cannot hear I would like to listen to that side by side and see if I hear anything or if it sounds better or worse
Interesting 👍
Bloomberg 🤮
I used Napster back in the day. Back when it took 2 hours to download a 3 min song… I had a 300 song collection and a full hard drive😂 1999…
An app?
I used Winamp cause "It really whips the Llama's ass"
Back to the old days we used to call softwares rather than an app
nostalgia. 90's were awesome.
I am so glad I was part of this!!
Huurah! Now the music biz execs monetarily rape artists with 360 deals.. And Napster turns into Spotify.. Every single step of the way for artists is built and controlled by..pirates
The song wasn’t ON Napster. It was ON music owner’s computers. It was sharing purchased music.
14:34 always knew sean parker was a mouth breather
Sony was one of the first phones with mp3 players… 2000/01
I loved Napster. There was a lot of very obscure and underground stuff on there, including live shows that people recorded. I was able to discover lots of new music that wouldn’t have been possible in the same way. I also bought albums by artists I discovered that I really liked on Napster – usually directly from the record label if I could. I was also living in a place where very few musicians visited. It was a very different landscape in so many ways back then but Napster was a wonderful part of it.
If these big shot executives with all the resources didn’t see it coming, they deserves the hit. That’s why you get paid millions.
Who remembers AOL music file server chat rooms?
Wait a minute, did Shawn Fanning actually originate Peer 2 Peer technology? The very same tech that the blockchain ( and therefore Bitcoin ) is based off of?
Edit: Shawn Fanning, not Parker lol