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Posted by Jan Willem
Posted on 13/02/01 17:09
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When I started writing this article, it was not known if Napster could continue or not, but just in case, this article is about Napster and his friends. I think it's about 1,5 year ago, when I and the other CD Freaks webmasters first heard about Napster and we were very impressed. After a while Napster became more and more popular, and nowadays it's one of the most popular applications on the net, most people would be very sad without it.

But is there a future ahead without Napster and/or likewise programs ? I don't think so. First I will explain how Napster works. It's not that complicated.
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Posted by on Thursday 15 February 2001 11:22
Good article Domin8tor! Too bad you did not mention WinMX as a good alternative. I know it is not very well known yet, buts its better than all other Napsterlookalikes. And believe me I've tried out a fair number of them. You realy should try it. Is fast and easy to use.
I know all you MP3freaks will love it!

You can find more at http://www.winmx.com or http://www.museekster.com
(Dutch). At Museekster you can even download a small (1.1Mb) demovideo of WinMX. So
you can see for yourself that WinMX sure rules.
Posted by on Thursday 01 March 2001 07:36
:7 Well said :7

Whether or not they want to realize that this world is becoming more "Digital" that is their problem. I definately agree with you on the price of cds. Lets see 12-15 dollars for maybe 1-3 songs that we'll actually listen?!? AS I SAID. WELL SAID DoMiN8ToR
Posted by the111 on Wednesday 04 July 2001 11:59
Napster was just a beta for audiognome.com anyway!
Posted by on Wednesday 04 July 2001 19:21
Gnutella is still traceable. The users with most songs shared will be busted first. Freenet doesn't have this problem:
freenet.sourceforge.net
Posted by on Thursday 16 August 2001 02:06
Well I think the future of music sharing is in an opensource serverless project - you cant close it servers,even if rec companies tell server owner to remove it it will become warez(it will make stuff even cooler :4),there is no way anyone can stop music sharing :p .And right now I am thinkin' about creatin' such system :) (I've so far done some thinkin' about algorithms I'll use.Programmin will start in september.Who wanna contribute email me, perhaps we can move file sharing to a new level... ;) )
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