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Last Gasps of the Wild West of the Internet

Summary by Pipeline Artists
Back in the halcyon days of the World Wide Web, when signing onto the Internet meant suffering through a series of high-pitched buzzing and clicking sounds on a dial-up modem, and it took fifteen minutes to download a three-minute song, a little thing called Napster* made an appearance—a peer-to-peer system to download music for free. It was illegal, inconvenient, and glitchy, but free tends to win the day. Since the music industry had not adopt…
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Pipeline Artists broke the news in on Tuesday, April 1, 2025.
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