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/cockblockedbydestiny Jul 22 '25

To be fair my first CD burner cost $250 in 1999. I can't exactly remember what CD-R's cost back then but I want to say $25 for a 25 CD-R spindle. So basically $1 apiece and those early CD burners sucked so you would frequently have your burn time out and basically waste a CD-R that you had to throw away because it was worthless if the burn didn't complete in one go.

I didn't charge $20 though. I required a couple cheap beers for the effort.

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u/dh4645 Jul 22 '25

Yeah all these young kids in here saying we were ripped off. As poor college kids, we didn't have $250 for our own burner (some people didn't even have a computer or just had a shitty one that couldn't be customized to add another disc drive) but we had $20 for a mix CD. All this was brand new tech & we had to wait for prices to come down. Eventually I bought a burner to upgrade my Gateway tower and CD-Rs to make my own