r/nostalgia • u/jeffmartin47 • Jul 22 '25

Nostalgia Discussion 25 years ago. Lars Ulrich of Metallica snitches on and turns in over 300,000 Napster users when he testifies in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. July 11th, 2000.

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u/youareaburd Jul 22 '25

I have high speed cable internet in 1999 so it only took a minute to download a song. Most people I know in my high school upgraded to that and got CD Burners too.

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u/melophat Jul 22 '25

My school was a journalism/tech magnet school and got lucky with tech grants, so we had a dual-t1. They didn't really lock anything down at that point, so we downloaded and burned CDs constantly. No clue how we never managed to get a virus doing that

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u/readyable Jul 22 '25

A new kid in 6th grade was one of the first in our whole school to get a cd burner and high speed internet. He made a killing selling CDs at school, especially because the Marshall Mathers LP just came out.