How did LimeWire end Napster’s music revolution?

Quick: Tell me how old you are by telling me which app you used to download free music. Was it Napster? Casa? Usenet? Nutella? winmx? Morpheus? Pirate Bay? Have you been, I don’t know, sending songs to your friends on AIM or BBM? The possibilities are endless. For a decade or so, if you were online, you were probably stealing music.

to This episode of Release date, We’re telling the story of one of the last big names in file sharing: LimeWire. If the era of mainstream access to free music (mostly on college campuses and other fast networks) began with Napster, it will almost certainly end with LimeWire.

LimeWire is tailor-made in many ways no To be Napster, with designs for something more legitimate and business focused. The company tried again and again to figure out how to make money and create something more like music streaming, but it became embroiled in the same battle that had been going on for a decade. Once Groxter fellLimeWire never had the chance. Moreover, a whole new way of listening to music was at hand.

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