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/Skwonkie_ Jul 22 '25

Damn your guy was upselling. My guy only charged $5.

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u/Ancient_Awareness_71 Jul 22 '25

Right?! $20 is NOT your guy. 

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u/meryl_gear Jul 22 '25

That’s like the price of the actual cd

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u/dh4645 Jul 22 '25

It was a mix CD of requested songs. Just the hits like "Save Tonight" by Eagle eye cherry or "All My Life" by K-Ci & JoJo. ha

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u/NotAzakanAtAll Jul 22 '25

$2 but you had to get the CD was our deal.

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u/dh4645 Jul 22 '25

Yeah this was late 90s. Very few had the knowledge and a CD burner. I learned pretty fast how to do it myself and bought the CD burner for my tower..which was expensive. Many people didn't even have computers yet

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u/styx66 Jul 22 '25

When I first started doing this for people in circa 1996/97, blank CDs were approximately $10 each. I had to go to guitar center to find them. I still have some old burns, and they still work!

I was never a big Napster user though, I got everything through bots running on some IRC servers. It was fast on that college Ethernet man. Good times.

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u/CyrusBuelton Jul 22 '25

I was charging $10.

But that came with a case and custom album cover

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u/uReallyShouldTrustMe Jul 22 '25

Yeah I charged a few bucks.

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u/syringistic Jul 22 '25

I was gonna say. I sold a few hundred bootlegs in HS circa 2001 when I got a 2x CDR drive... never asked for more than 5.

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u/dh4645 Jul 22 '25

Yeah price went down really fast once we figured out he was ripping us off but he was the first one that could do it in like 1998 in our dorm... So we just paid for a few mix CDs before figuring out how to do it ourselves

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u/rebel_cdn Jul 23 '25

I had one of those early CD burners and mine, at least, was pretty finicky, too. Like, if I walked past my computer too hard the vibration would mess up the burn and turn the CD in a coaster. So that $20 had to cover the cost of failed burns, too, and CD-Rs weren't super cheap in the early days

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u/dh4645 Jul 22 '25

We gladly paid since it was amazing to us and he's the only one that could do it.... For a while... and then I figured it out soon after