I've been diving deep on the history of file sharing. If you listen to early news reports about Napster, it sounds a lot like fear around blockchain todayhttps://twitter.com/backus/status/1012070561306963968 …
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Artists like Soulja Boy got their name out there by leveraging file sharing services like Limewirehttps://twitter.com/backus/status/1014034580473434117 …
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Fun fact: Music industry revenue actually went UP after Napster took off. It didn't start plummeting until the iPod was releasedhttps://twitter.com/backus/status/1006242203050610688 …
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People in the 2000s warez scene risked going to prison in order to leak music online, pseudonymously. When you think about what motivates people, does your model explain the warez scene?https://twitter.com/backus/status/1006391268216205312 …
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If you're interested in the connections between p2p file sharing history and blockchain, I've written about a bunch of connections in this article:https://medium.com/@jbackus/fat-protocols-arent-new-42d2c538db41 …
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@internetarchive’s incredible resources which include a lot of old TV news clips. I basically spent last night watching everything that comes up when I search “file sharing”Show this thread -
MP3s catalyzed the music revolution by compressing music to 1/12th the original file size. Did you know that a lot of the compression techniques work by reducing the quality of audio that the human ear can’t pick up?https://twitter.com/backus/status/1006958023321870337 …
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Music studios were slow to embrace music subscription services like Spotify for many reasons, but IMO part of it was that even a complete elimination of piracy in favor of subscriptions would have destroyed most of their revenuehttps://twitter.com/backus/status/1014664705544089601 …
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But what was the question? "What's Matt Damon really like?" :)
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The question was "Do you guys file share? Do you download music?"
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Interesting thread... Hopefully bitcoin isn’t Napster
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It is probably Limewire/Kazaa/eDonkeyhttps://twitter.com/backus/status/1013593628260761600 …
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My boy's wicked smat.
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To be honest, John, this opinion was common currency back in 2003. Thousands of people would have made this *prediction* and Affleck had probably just read this somewhere.
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Yeah, but dropping some Adam Smith free market economy references goes a bit beyond parroting a nascent popular opinion he heard/read...
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The level of respect I have for Ben Affleck just went through the roof. What he said there and how he said it was the way an academic scholar would have said it, not your typical actor.
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You know he used to host a science show when he was a kid? The guy's pretty smart.
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