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	Podcast:		Internet History Podcast
	Episode:		139. The Napster Story with Jordan Ritter
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		01:22:29
	Publish Date:		2017-04-16 11:40:36
	Description:		Napster was an incredible phenomenon, reaching tens of millions of users at its height, and though Jordan Ritter didn't invent Napster, he very much was responsible for scaling it and turning it into the phenomenon it became. In today's episode, Jordan recounts the entire Napster story, from its gestation in the w00w00 hacker collective (which, by the way, people talk a lot about the PayPal mafia, but an argument can be made for a w00w00 mafia) all the way through Napster's legal descent into oblivion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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