#Napster

Brad L. :verified:reyjrar@hachyderm.io
2025-12-09

RE: mastodon.social/@onthisday/115

I was working for SkyCache. We did satellite usenet and web cache pre-injection, saving ISPs money on transit costs. This lawsuit had a second order effect of dropping transit usage for those same ISPs. They stopped paying for our service.

It was a weird time on the internet. Prior to the lawsuit, a burst of innovation and scaling network capacities to accommodate the demand of P2P apps. With Napster falling and the dotCom bubble bursting all in the same time frame, the industry stagnated for a while. It was unfathomable to think we wouldn't need to keep scaling our network equipment, then overnight, *crickets*.

I think we're about to see the exact same thing happen with datacenters, GPUs, and electricity thanks to AI.

#AI #fuck_ai #eternalSeptember #napster

2025-12-08
2025-12-07

The Recording Industry Association of America sued the peer-to-peer file-sharing service #Napster OTD in 1999, alleging copyright infringement cromwell-intl.com/technical/wm #music #history

Coach Pāṇini ®paninid@mastodon.world
2025-12-05

Give me fuel, give me fire, give me that which I desire, but especially give me a dude a who can “hack” the Windows 98 boot registry and we’re off to never-never land downloading more DMX and Tim McGraw.

#Napster

apfeltalk :verified:apfeltalk@creators.social
2025-11-26

Wie das MP3-Patent von 1996 die Musikindustrie veränderte
Am heutigen Tag im Jahr 1996 wurde in den USA ein Patent erteilt, das die Grundlage für die digitale Musikwelt legte. Das MP3-Format ebnete den Weg für Musiktauschbörsen, iTunes und heutige Streaming-Dienste.

Entwicklung und Patenti
apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/wie-
#Music #News #AAC #DigitaleMusik #FLAC #Fraunhofer #iPod #iTunes #mp3 #Napster #Patent #Streaming

Pirates.BZ Tech Startup Newspirates@mastodon.world
2025-11-24

#Napster, formerly #InfiniteReality, announced a $3.36 billion investment in January, but the investor and #funds have #vanished. The company, facing #lawsuits and #unpaidbills, is now claiming to be a victim of misconduct and is assisting law enforcement. The #SEC and #DOJ are #investigating the company’s actions, including the validity of the investment and its financial practises. forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/202 #Pirates #Tech #Startup #News

I need to look into what happened to all the #Napster users sued by record companies.

Mossad-Ultrá Oliver 📟oliver@die-partei.social
2025-11-08

@Lara @tagesschau #Napster bei #Aldi einfach für 7,99€/30 Tage erhältlich. Ironie an der Sache ist, dass die an die Künstler:innen mehr als das vierfache von dem auszahlen, was #Spotify ausschüttet.
tophit.com/news/show/30130
aldi-music.de/de/musik-streami
#Streaming #AldiMusic

ꙮ 𝄃𝄁𝄂𝄀𝄀𝄁𝄃🇫🇯🇱🇨🇱🇧liilliil@mastodon.online
2025-10-26

Легенды, зубры прошлых лет!

#favicon #pixelart #napster #icq #netscape #skype

NapsterSkypeNetscapeICQ
2025-10-01

This week on Cybercultural, let's re-live the Year of Napster: Shawn Fanning wearing a Metallica shirt to the 2000 MTV Awards, Lars Ulrich testifying to Senate and whining to the media, and... SoundJam (soon to be known as iTunes). cybercultural.com/p/napster-it... #InternetHistory #Napster #iTunes

2000: The Napster Monster and ...

Richard MacManusricmac
2025-10-01

This week on Cybercultural, let's re-live the Year of Napster: Shawn Fanning wearing a Metallica shirt to the 2000 MTV Awards, Lars Ulrich testifying to Senate and whining to the media (but in retrospect, was he right after all?!), Judge Patel calling Napster a monster, the media dreaming of a "heavenly jukebox", and — amid it all — a new legal alternative quietly emerges: SoundJam (soon to be known as iTunes). cybercultural.com/p/napster-it

bash2 (☎️3018)bash2@momou.social
2025-10-01

Die Zeiten ändern sich (nicht) ...

Während ich anfangs 2000er-Jahre eine Viertelstunde wartete, bis der gewünschte Song von #Napster mit 128 kbit/s über ISDN-Leitung heruntergeladen war, warte ich heute zwanzig Jahre später eine Viertelstunde, bis das gewünschte #LLM-Model von #Huggingface über mit 1 Gbit/s über die Glasfaser-Leitung heruntergeladen ist.

#download #2000s #2020s #Internet #speed #isdn #fiber #kbits #Gbits

2025-09-24

How did you get on with last week's #threeForFriday #music #quiz - the #pirate theme turned into a bit of geography knowledge.
All 3 answers here for you and more to come on Friday.

#musicquiz #trivia #musictrivia #questions #musicquestions #popmaster #musicfans #musicgame #musicchallenge #quiztime #instaquiz #metallica #drdre @metallica @drdre #mp3 #piratebay #sweden #germany #napster

Bebadefabobebadefabo
2025-09-22

@robz remember how great it felt to find everything you wanted on ? Piracy has gotten so much easier since then ... You just forgot because they made streaming even easier

Decenta Lyzed ☯️🇬🇱:dogroll:pepper0@aus.social
2025-09-21

New docker release of #decentralized #p2p search engine YaCy arrived. yacy.net
A better alternative to duckduckgo #searx .
new images are now about 400MB instead of 1.3-2GB because of enhanced packaging. And they are multi-arch!
With docker you can run YaCy simply with:
docker run -d -p 8090:8090 yacy/yacy_search_server:latest

P2P technologies and P2P search engines are more sustainable and fault-tolerant than centralized cloud or VPS-based systems because they distribute data and processing across many independent nodes rather than relying on a single or limited set of servers. This decentralization reduces energy consumption by leveraging existing resources on users' devices instead of massive data centers that require constant cooling and power. It also enhances fault tolerance, as the network remains operational even if multiple nodes fail, avoiding single points of failure common in centralized models. Furthermore, P2P search engines protect privacy by reducing reliance on centralized data collection. By democratically sharing load and data, P2P systems create resilient, scalable, and eco-friendly alternatives to traditional centralized architectures.

alternative classic search engines swisscows.com/en kagi.com frogfind.com
alternative p2p tech to try that provide p2p distributed search capabilities : dc++ , gnutella2 , zeronet , holochain

If you do self host YaCy, or maybe use fancy non bittorrent p2p & publish a video review on peertube - let me know.

Please boost, re-toot, re-tweet this post across #fediverse this is important.

#search #searchengine #docker #selfhost #selfhosting #selfhosted #p2p #serverless #opendata #democracy #distributed #distributedcomputing #napster #limewire #torrent #bittorrent

network graph

Nutzt noch jemand ALDI music bzw ALDI talk music?

Seit WOCHEN sind kaum noch Inhalte verfügbar. Die Hotline antwortet mit "wir wissen auch nicht was bei #Napster los ist" und Napster selbst spricht (über die App angefragt) von "einer bedeutenden Umstellung" "derzeit" und gibt Tipps, wie man seine Playlist exportiert und kündigen kann. WTF?! 🤨

SO macht das Angebot von ALDI jedenfalls keinen Sinn und meine Erachtens nach ist das sogar Nichterfüllung des Vertrags.

Weiß jemand mehr?

#aldiTalk #aldiMusic #aldiTalkMusic #napsterMusic #musicStreaming

Bastianbastian_S
2025-08-30

Ich brauche mal ein bißchen Inspiration. Ich habe noch ca. 120GB Files auf meinem NAS. Das Alter der Dateien reicht zurück bis in die wunderbaren Anfänge von ;).
Welchen Player nutzt ihr ihr unter für lokale MP3s?

Arnaud Mangasaryan (Ramenos)ramenos@framapiaf.org
2025-08-27

Un bon article récapitulatif sur l'emergence de #Napster en 1999, qui a poussé l'industrie de la musique a devoir se renouveler sur la distribution des créations :

cybercultural.com/p/napster-19

#davidbowie #p2p #webhistory

Li Chen ZhouCharAznable@c.im
2025-08-21

#Napster
Estava olhando quanto esta custando o valor da assinatura dos streaming de musica e o Napster é o que tem melhor custo beneficio.

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