Most file sharing “histories” start with Napster in 1999
More interesting to rewind to 1997 when RIAA took down @dweekly’s mp3 website. Starting at pure centralization, p2p’s evolution becomes legible: decentralizing as little as possible w/ new legal precedents set annually
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Anyway, lawyers were asking for content takedowns on the internet for as long as I've been on the internet.
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It wasn't a blog either, it was more a frontend to newsgroups that collected the multipart files into easily downloaded files.
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Honestly I don't remember but it couldn't have been too many because I setup the outgoing CGI script to deliver only one file at a time at 32kbit because we only had 128kbit upstream for institution.
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