015 - Napster, LimeWire & Kazaa: The Culture of File Sharing

Napster, LimeWire, Kazaa & Morpheus — how P2P file-sharing remade music, piracy, and streaming. 🎧🔥

Jump into our deep dive on the chaotic, brilliant, and legally explosive era when people swapped MP3s like mixtapes. In this episode we trace how Shawn Fanning’s Napster ignited a revolution, how Kazaa and Morpheus rose to fill the void, why LimeWire got shut down, and how those battles forced the music industry to finally change course — for better and worse. 📼➡️📲

What you’ll get in this episode:

• Quick origins — P2P file sharing's founding and explosive growth.

• The Wild West — What it was like to use these services and the pitfalls.

• The legal fights — Metallica vs. Napster. ⚖️

• Cultural aftermath — how piracy accelerated streaming, music discovery, and industry business models.  ...