The file-sharing app launched 25 years ago and unleashed a wave of piracy that would shake Hollywood to its core.
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com Gnutella Explanation - A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It
Welcome to my overly enthusiastic love letter to Gnutella.
Despite its meteoric rise and its role as a driving force behind the file-sharing phenomenon of the 2000s, Gnutella has gone mostly forgotten. Some of that is because it was a component technology hidden beneath more visible projects like LimeWire.
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com RIP.so - memorial to defunct services & products
Some that might interest folks here:
- Real Player - The inventors of streaming & the poster child for enshittification
- iRiver - perhaps the first major MP3 (and OGG!) player. DRM & iTunes not required.
- Napster - P2P for the early adopters
- KaZaA, Limewire & Bearshare - P2P for the masses. (And BTW the source of my user name: klu9 = KaZaA Lite User 9)
- MP3.com - At first indie artists uploading their own materials, then users uploading their own CDs
- Radio.Blog.Club - Embed an MP3 in your blog
- Grooveshark - Streaming all music
- Usenet - A shadow of its former self but still a bastion of binaries
Personally, got started with Audiogalaxy, went all in with Morpheus & KaZaA Lite. Loved Groov
Force of habit!