An App Called Napster | System Shock Ep 1

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Watch Parts 2 & 3 here: • System Shock
The music world was forever changed when an American teenager named Shawn Fanning started Napster in his dorm room. In doing so, he triggered a momentous shift in how media is consumed everywhere.
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@business 3 жыл бұрын

We’re launching a brand new series for 2021 called System Shock. This season is about the rise of the mp3, iTunes, streaming and the disruption of modern music industry. Watch Parts 2 & 3 here: kzfaq.info/sun/PLqq4LnWs3olWZfE2J2rlb-vOq0c-U23nZ Have an idea for a future season? Let us know in the comments!

@davidcao1989 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing content 🙂

@yengsabio5315 3 жыл бұрын

I really never understood the basic technicalities of mp3 until this video! TYVM! Lots'a love, cheers, & Mabuhay, from tropical Philippines!

@feeltoofree 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing but can you do it for industries other than music? That'd be awesome.

@justtestingonce 3 жыл бұрын

Social from tribe to Friendster to MySpace to Facebook to Snapchat

@dbndbn9279 3 жыл бұрын

Idea: Retail store front versus the digital store front: the great migration from the high street to the warehouse.

@zinjanthropus322 3 жыл бұрын

One dude with a computer vs teams of highly educated executives with billions of dollars. These stories are my favourite.

@pokepress 3 жыл бұрын

I’m sure this one is taught in business classes to this day, and will be for a while.

@pakopepefdez185 3 жыл бұрын

one dude... c'mon man.

@CesarPastorini 3 жыл бұрын

Dont forget to note that those executives are still rich. The David Goliah stories please us, but they are not the final story

@zinjanthropus322 3 жыл бұрын

@@pakopepefdez185 It was literally one dude writing napster in a basement.

@zinjanthropus322 3 жыл бұрын

@@CesarPastorini Internet piracy sites have more content than all streaming sites combined. That's another part of the legacy.

@moji96 3 жыл бұрын

Basically millionaires complaining that they can't be billionaires. Edit: I'm not talking about the artists.

@ADeeSHUPA 3 жыл бұрын

@absolute freedom of speech or death true artist

@SaSha-hb5rq 3 жыл бұрын

@absolute freedom of speech or death tks to how technology evolves, the artist now can truly own 100% what they havee created

@davidperry4013 3 жыл бұрын

Making more than 5 million dollars or 4 million British pounds a year is a diminishing on living a lavish lifestyle. You can still be a happy person with a 35,000 a year salary. They need to understand that money does not buy happiness.

@jorgepeterbarton 3 жыл бұрын

@absolute freedom of speech or death it takes time. Rent and food like everyone else. They dont complain they arent millionaires. Maybe they complain a million hear their record and yet they got paid 5k split between four bandmembers, plus all the cut, and producer costs etc. Does that even cover minimum food. So next up: oh sorry, weve got to get jobs for a while no second album. Only richkids get to do that.

@jorgepeterbarton 3 жыл бұрын

@@davidperry4013 i'd love to know what artists earn 35k! How many tens of millions of streams is that? I bet a fair few you think have made it get about 1/4 of minimum wage.

@cdsnider9496 3 жыл бұрын

I was 18 years old in 99. Napster changed my life, I downloaded thousands of songs. It completely opened my mind to different types of music that I would have never listened to. It was a amazing time. Now days kids take for granted that they can listen to what ever music they want to. We were stuck listening to what the DJ on the radio played that day.

@cjm8160 3 жыл бұрын

It also taught us all the value of patience. Does everyone remember how long it took to download songs on 28,8 and 14,4 kbs routers? If you had a 56k, you were golden 😂

@holaespanoldewisconsin7153 3 жыл бұрын

@@cjm8160 ;p; yeah I had Kazza, took forever to download jamiroquai "Virtual insanity" music video. lol

@mockingbird12 3 жыл бұрын

I almost cried watching the vid and reading your comment. We sure lived to see the best times of the internet. I was 12 in 99, and it was EPIC!

@ssharma26 3 жыл бұрын

Me too 😍

@jimmylives 3 жыл бұрын

Ok boomer

@LastOneLeft99 3 жыл бұрын

"We didn't see the change in technology coming" Actually years ago I read an article how in the late 90s they were given a tech demo of something that was very close to iTunes for downloading music. They were basically screamed at and told "We sell CDs we are NEVER going to do this!". Conversation over. They knew, they just dug in their heels and doubled down.

@kerwinhui1337 3 жыл бұрын

Indeed. I recall back in 2002-2003 many people were already pointing to the then business model in China (where selling CDs had never worked --- early 90s the market was too small for CDs and late 90s the cheap CD-R and mp3 are already out) and it is essentially what ended up happening in 2010s in the US: adverts and live concerts made up the 90%+ of the income of the music industry with CDs (even those with "bonus" contents such as behind-the-scene interviews) are only as promotion material.

@pokepress 3 жыл бұрын

It was a mix. Some were genuinely clueless or in denial, others realized the need for a legitimate alternative.

@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like when Netflix tried to sell itself to Blockbuster.

@AneudiD78 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly. The music execs doubled down and said, "Who in the right minds would want to download a single song?" Sometimes the CD album was wack and we only wanted that one song. They had the chance to be the first, they shut down Napster, but opened up Pandora's box in return.

@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive 3 жыл бұрын

@@AneudiD78 _Pandora's_ Box. I see what you did there.

@migo-migo9503 3 жыл бұрын

Even before Napster, there were kids with CD-RW drive duplicating CDs and selling them for $5 at school. Napster, Kazaa, and others just sped that up by a thousand times.

@Ranter-yi9zq 3 жыл бұрын

There was a lot of struggle in downloading music that you want the most. Here's two of them that some of you might remember: - Your mp3 is 95% downloaded. But then it stops to say "Needs more sources". - You finally download a song you want. Hit play and you hear, "My fellow Americans. I would like to say once again that I did not have sexual relations with that woman....". I still have that mp3.

@CesarJoel94 3 жыл бұрын

Lmao 😂

@caldoreo 3 жыл бұрын

Those bastards😂😂😂

@violet-265 2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@asoidfhowehjr8248 Жыл бұрын

The original Rick Roll😂😂

@thangzathang9100 3 жыл бұрын

I have a feeling I’m gonna enjoy this new “System shock” series

@baymaxred4632 3 жыл бұрын

Please do more of these series

@danw1045 3 жыл бұрын

In the '80s we listened to Casey Kasem's Top 40 countdown with a stack of blank tapes and a finger on the record button of our dual cassette boom boxes Same crap, different decade, it's just easier today.

@cconnors 3 жыл бұрын

Bloomberg your Quicktake's series is making me like you. Continue.

@osamabinladen824 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@osamabinladen824 3 жыл бұрын

@absolute freedom of speech or death Maybe

@brianlaroche8856 3 жыл бұрын

Dont get your hopes up, you may get push off the cliff

@osamabinladen824 3 жыл бұрын

@@brianlaroche8856 Why

@brianlaroche8856 3 жыл бұрын

@@osamabinladen824 lol ("screenname")

@ygryaznov 3 жыл бұрын

I see houses of music executives, and i dont see how piracy impacted their income...

@TheEiriniK 3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the exact same thing...

@magdelen1123 3 жыл бұрын

So true

@codyghind 3 жыл бұрын

Nailed it. Though artists income, that's a different story.

@TheDavidLiou 3 жыл бұрын

@@codyghind most of the artists that they represent are doing fine too... the smaller artist however...

@veilenedream5825 3 жыл бұрын

yeah lol they are still rich

@Troy-McClure81 3 жыл бұрын

And to this day a CD still costs 17$,yet a concert is over 100$,the music industry found a way to make there 💰 💰

@Troy-McClure81 3 жыл бұрын

@Mcillsonn here in las vegas we call those "intimate" shows and charge double, I haven't been to a small show that was less then 50$ in over 10 years.But I guess it depends where you live

@rob011 3 жыл бұрын

Based on what Larry Kenswil had to say in this, the music execs likely refused to collaborate with the tech partners and didn’t actually give them any useful info about the music business - and it’s precisely that smugness, arrogance, and gatekeeping that will continue to ruin the industry.

@cyb3r1 3 жыл бұрын

Napster was such a big part of my early teens, I even used the chat rooms on a daily basis, was so bummed when it was taken down.

@angusmcdeath8403 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I discovered alot of new music back in the day from the chat rooms

@jorgepeterbarton 3 жыл бұрын

I discovered a lot of music. How else is an 11 year old going to afford CDs? I am musician and back then had an unmusical family who never listened to music, but was forming first bands then. I sometimes ripped cds from friends but then id never find the new band to tell them about or rely on all their nu metal. Maybe if they didny destroy radio and MTV i wouldnt have. They were asking for it by killing genre diversity tbh. And then John Peel died few years later was about the only place to hear this stuff.

@jamesalexanderbarnettdp9479 3 жыл бұрын

Limewire was the platform I probably used the most.

@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive 3 жыл бұрын

James Alexander Barnett DP Same.

@downwithtrudeau 3 жыл бұрын

Kazaa here

@jamesalexanderbarnettdp9479 3 жыл бұрын

@@intoam didn’t matter back in those days so much cause we didn’t have all our financial information stored on them, if I ever had a problem I just used to format the system and start again. Lol

@intoam 3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesalexanderbarnettdp9479 never had that issue running Linux ;)

@deezeed2817 3 жыл бұрын

Winmx who remembers them?

@cougrrr 3 жыл бұрын

The RIAA and the executives were late to the party and then sued their way back in. A real sad tale for the industry stuck in the past with a revolution that could have helped all artists, big and small.

@FNNickJamesTV 3 жыл бұрын

You gotta love the audacity of record label executives calling somebody out for stealing.

@brianlaroche8856 3 жыл бұрын

At the same time sellinj JUNK as "music artist" that never wrote 1/100 of "their music"

@daleridpath 3 жыл бұрын

Im sure we called it a program back then??

@intoam 3 жыл бұрын

program...application...warez..fuck

@synthoelectro 3 жыл бұрын

you beat me to it.

@matte2160 3 жыл бұрын

An app is an app is an app. Been this way since the beginning of computer science.

@caldoreo 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, computer programs

@LazerC4 3 жыл бұрын

Napster changed the game. Great doc.

@onepiecebarca 3 жыл бұрын

16:53 She still doesn't understand how internet works at this very day and age. Once something is on the internet, you can't delete it. They could've tried to delete all the top 200 billboard songs but people still had those songs as mp3 files on their computers and they could be found again

@y2washere 3 жыл бұрын

A great example of how the executives only had their eyes on the money and nothing else.

@peggystephanie3983 3 жыл бұрын

1:43 the dial-up tone took me back in time. 😳

@Teddy-ez9qq 2 жыл бұрын

Top doc! The fact I was right at the forefront of this revolution will be with me forever. Used to use Napster all night long compiling different genre playlists, I would then burn them, create my own artwork and take them to school the next day and sell them. There'd be rival sellers at school as well and you had to make sure you had the latest tracks and the best artwork. What a time to be alive!

@holaespanoldewisconsin7153 3 жыл бұрын

--" Start with the billboard top 200" _"yeah i'll get right on that thanks" doesn't. lmao!

@skatetoexplorevideos2477 3 жыл бұрын

my friend spent days downloading from Napster. we were still in high school. good times.

@Sam-pn2kc 3 жыл бұрын

Yeh good days hey.

@Aaron25thinfantry 3 жыл бұрын

A song took days😂

@TeeDee87 3 жыл бұрын

we used schools internet because it was way faster :D. Then burned on cds and brought home.

@skatetoexplorevideos2477 3 жыл бұрын

@@TeeDee87 nice 😄

@fizzpresley 3 жыл бұрын

If anything, the MP3 gave the artists their power back. The amount of music I found back then that still influences me today is incredible, while most of people had to listen to radio or mtv... Not to mention that the napster generation is now buying CD's and vynil because we finally can afford it

@OneManOnFire 3 жыл бұрын

Back in the day off Napster I would type in a artist or song title followed by remix. I found so many good mixes back then

@xentaatnex8261 3 жыл бұрын

This brings back memories of my irc warez days.

@intoam 3 жыл бұрын

irc still going strong

@jordankriss2440 3 жыл бұрын

I really love all those Bloomberg Quicktake contents...a few weeks ago, you guys did one for Pepsi cola scandal from Phillippines that was really interesting. Whoever is writer/producer for this content, you are doing a fine job. Thanks!

@davidgarratt9632 3 жыл бұрын

Former music pirate shares 1000 cds. Laughs in movie modern pirate sharing terabytes of data per day.

@Sam-pn2kc 3 жыл бұрын

Arhh i remember Napster like it was yesterday. Im now 32

@MrValy128 3 жыл бұрын

I hear ya man. It hurts doesn't it. :-(

@Brett_S_420 3 жыл бұрын

Yarh.. Yarh. 🏴‍☠️

@AneudiD78 3 жыл бұрын

In 1999, my friend introduced me to Napster from his friend. On my 33.6kps dial-up, which only netted me a 2-3kps, 4kps on a rare day, downloading one song took me roughly about one to two hours! Then I introduced this to my cousin, then he introduced it to other people and so on. What I liked about Napster is that it allowed me to branch out into other musical genres when I was looking at somebody else's collection.

@mysteryjesus 3 жыл бұрын

Napster was genius. In those golden years, it was pure magic downloading music you could never find or get anywhere else plus you could talk to the guys who had this music. I was talking to people all over the world who loved the same music as me. Then big business killed it.

@NWJF 3 жыл бұрын

It is a bit of a misnomer to say that Napster "invented" or that the Seans "created" peer to peer. Peer to peer was already in use for file sharing before Napster. Napster made it easy, accessible and attractive to the average user. However. We were file sharing mp3s prior to 98/99 with other programs.

@shantanukulkarni8883 3 жыл бұрын

This is such a fantastic video.. one of the best documentaries I have ever seen on KZfaq.

@javianjohnson8746 2 жыл бұрын

I was born at the very end of 1999, so learning about the history of the mp3 and the popularity of Napster is really interesting me right now

@JeevaDotNet 3 жыл бұрын

The one guy from Winamp started a facebook group like two weeks ago, telling his stories regarding their gangs exploits and stories. Very interesting.

@420 3 жыл бұрын

I think Daft Punk - Around The World was the first song on Napster I ever downloaded as a kid. OMG 1:48 - THATS WINAMP! That mp3 player is nostalgic af to see featured!!!

@zuokia 3 жыл бұрын

Who else is an pre 2000 internet user?? I started in 1999

@JErnst-pl5xk 3 жыл бұрын

First heard about the internet in 95. Got my first AOL account in 1998. My first Amazon order = 2001.🤓😆

@sebAstian-xp3kw 3 жыл бұрын

😸😸😸 i still use my old AOL email adress from 1999 ..... im 33 now 🤡

@alholic 3 жыл бұрын

Superb! Makes miss the 90s even more when everything was so new and exciting. Such simpler times and a much less pervasive internet experience.

@nuitNo.6 3 жыл бұрын

Back when apps (applications) were called programs or software.

@decordova. 2 жыл бұрын

It wasn't called piracy back then, It was just file sharing, and before that it was just mixed tapes that were gifted.

@crombajaa 3 жыл бұрын

It was never called "App" . It was called Software /Application . And it should always be called software.

@RobertBryk 3 жыл бұрын

Program

@crombajaa 3 жыл бұрын

@@RobertBryk yup or program!

@jofx4051 3 жыл бұрын

Now people just simply called it app just like app in phone

@synthoelectro 3 жыл бұрын

it's true, it was program, software, etc.

@Ashquacks 3 жыл бұрын

It's short for APPlicaton. A guy named Joseph gets called Joe, what about it?

@irazt 3 жыл бұрын

I agree with the other commentors, this quick take series finally made me interested in you guys again

@umachan9286 3 жыл бұрын

I was just a kid when Napster came out but it changed how we listened to music. Then we got broadband and I went from taking 20 minutes to download a song to maybe 2. Needless to say I filled up my hard drive with songs.

@denniskelley2697 3 жыл бұрын

Thinking about all the money I wasted as a 90's kid buying CDs and DVDs....

@fbicappuccino5460 3 жыл бұрын

@Nixon E why

@alhambra792 3 жыл бұрын

Napster was the 'KZfaq' back then.

@pratiksamant6751 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for constantly creating such amazing content for us!

@georgem3240 3 жыл бұрын

It still amazes me that a couple of nerds in a garage or basement can take down multi billion corporations with thousands of employees and nearly unlimited financial resources.

@fullmetalalchemist9126 3 жыл бұрын

Brains and wits can be more important than resources sometimes

@wavyy 3 жыл бұрын

Those labels were backwards and didn't want to go with the times. It's easy to take down people who are not using the opportunities of their respective times.

@StereotypicBehaviour 3 жыл бұрын

I loved Napster. There was a lot of very obscure and underground stuff on there, including live shows that people recorded. I was able to discover lots of new music that wouldn’t have been possible in the same way. I also bought albums by artists I discovered that I really liked on Napster - usually directly from the record label if I could. I was also living in a place where very few musicians visited. It was a very different landscape in so many ways back then but Napster was a wonderful part of it.

@gus473 3 жыл бұрын

Glad this came recommended! 👍🏼

@niceshot4563 3 жыл бұрын

Nobody used the word "app" back when Napster was around.

@patrik5123 3 жыл бұрын

These executives are really washing their stories now, some 20 odd years later.

@ishanbhanu 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome series Bloomberg Quicktake, great job!

@CiscoZero 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing quality doc! Amazing, amazing, amazing stuff!

@heck0216 3 жыл бұрын

RIAA CEO: “we saw mp3 as an opportunity” same lady: yeah, that’s the app we’ve talking about this for YEARS. Let me make a friendly phone call and ask for a favor... Yep, CEO... and they labeled the Napster kids as Pirates. WTF

@Dreyno 3 жыл бұрын

If they’d sold the albums for 10 bucks instead of 20, they wouldn’t have been as exposed to what happened. I was paying 23-24 for an album before this. Now I still buy CDs but they’re 5-10.

@JAHKAMREN 3 жыл бұрын

16:22 omg that UI game me nostalgia. Btw make sure you download the ones that have a green color. Most reliable.

@tjlabbee7856 3 жыл бұрын

I used Napster back in the day. Back when it took 2 hours to download a 3 min song... I had a 300 song collection and a full hard drive😂 1999...

@shoeengine1161 3 жыл бұрын

theres a lot more people who were in 7th grade around that time who were on these channels who are able to more eloquently explain the ethics behind sharing and downloading music files on the internet than, "it was the 90's... we were young. we didn't know what we were doing."

@villewintermaul1907 3 жыл бұрын

Its extremely ironic that a guy who apparently loved music and audio created MP3 format 🤣🤣🤣

@SonnyB273 3 жыл бұрын

I feel really sorry for the pop stars and music executives of today, only 2 multimillion dollar homes instead of 10.

@pakopepefdez185 3 жыл бұрын

The big music corporations knew about MP3 and that it will eventually end the way music was sold and made. They were just trying to extend the income from their capital investment as much as possible. They were not a group of old men against progress, the problem was that they did not own the technology, that is the reason why they do not accept the change. Just like the gas light fought against electric bulbs.

@cameron20020 3 жыл бұрын

remember when sony sent out rootkits on their cds?

@douglasrogers4675 3 жыл бұрын

and then released a program to remove the rootkits that actually installed more?

@vampyrelycan99 3 жыл бұрын

@@douglasrogers4675 Didn't recall this part though. But AFAIK soon after this rootkit mess the industry finally killed off CCCDs, even though not all affected releases got the non-CCCD reprints......

@PandaJenn 3 жыл бұрын

This documentary is fantastic! Well done!

@ipsilonia 3 жыл бұрын

the editing in this series is impeccable

@IntellectOnly 3 жыл бұрын

I can proudly say I bought ONE music CD in my entire life!!

@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245 3 жыл бұрын

*ANGRY LARS ULRICH SOUNDS*

@NEONOIRERA 3 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@mechajay3358 3 жыл бұрын

He's pretty much know for his Rant on Napster.

@CochiTravels 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant piece of documentary!

@Kipkemoi 3 жыл бұрын

This should have many more viewers!

@xbrandon2252 3 жыл бұрын

So awesome to see this, i love watching docs on Napster and seeing the history

@AjmalMeethal 3 жыл бұрын

Good one. Looking forward to many more in this series

@20_percent 3 жыл бұрын

Technology moves as fast as I go to the store for beer

@frostmelody 3 жыл бұрын

Finally quality content on KZfaq. Subbed

@bpcgos 3 жыл бұрын

Never thought Indonesia mentioned there in early piracy era. I reckoned at the time Internet is luxury spared only in big company, and I mean tech company by that, not even government made internet readily available.

@manimnaHusna 3 жыл бұрын

Im Happy to see another Indonesian watch useful documentary like this

@bpcgos 3 жыл бұрын

@@manimnaHusna yeah, indonesian youtube content rarely have anything useful, usually just clickbait content or content from 'famous' local KZfaqr that I didnt find interested. And as a millenial, Im obviously enjoying piracy back in the day, although its more of 'physical' piracy like bootleg cartridge for NESClone console, bootleg Playstation CD, and VCD because internet didnt even exist (AFAIK) back then in mid 90s until early 2000.

@johnjoe_247 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent Doc ! Shared ..........

@jasonyu-gi-oh1056 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely amazing!

@aric85 3 жыл бұрын

That was great. Really enjoyed it!

@karliebellatrixyoung6359 3 жыл бұрын

10:34 His phraseology is really important here; file sharing was in most respects essentially the same process as tape sharing was in the prior decades. Metallica literally became the band they were due to the underground thrash metal tape sharing networks that took an early liking to them, if they had prosecuted those kids they would've been over before they even made The Black Album.

@fckSashka 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! Also gave me some nostalgia for the late 90s, early 2000s :)

@mikeschmitty4438 3 жыл бұрын

my inner nerd who desires this information thanks you deeply!! I wish the world cared about applauding these people who achieved greatness!

@bushworstprez Жыл бұрын

Wow just found this, amazing! On to part 2. ✌🏽❤️

@snakei01 3 жыл бұрын

I was the first in my neighborhood showing other kids how to use Napster 😂

3 жыл бұрын

This series is great!

@c187rocks 3 жыл бұрын

11:10 Well I just had the realization that we're going to see TechTV clips in these retrospective videos from now on since TechTV (and ZDTV before it) were ahead of the curb in talking about those emerging technologies.

@subijoyacharya3189 3 жыл бұрын

I loved the first episode of this series. Bring us more.

@oxdhaoxt3694 3 жыл бұрын

Great production

@urbanhunter81 3 жыл бұрын

This brought me back to my younger days.... Thks !

@marcs4091 3 жыл бұрын

The one thing that sucked the most about Napster going down was, there was a lot of cool electronic music on Napster that you couldn't get anywhere else. You couldn't go down to your local music store and buy it, it was only on Napster. And once Napster went down it was gone forever.