There's a reasonable case to be made that the entire Verge exists because of software piracy in Napster and Limewire because that's what radicalized me in college. Like I am the kid who was a freshman in college writing furious like sent to the entire school emails addressed to Greg Jackson, the director of IT services. Oh wow.About traffic shaping the network. So we couldn't run Napster. It just sent me to law school because I was fully righteous about it.And then I ended up at the end of all that uh worki ...

We've all pirated a song or two in our day. I feel like there's like the Napster kids, there's the Kazah kids, there's the Limewire kids, and then there's like the kids who don't know. Is that like a fair delineation of the generations, would you say.>> No, the kid the the kids who don't know are just the Torrent kids. >> Oh, that's fair. Well, there's the torrent kids and then there's like the Spotify kids and they're the kids who don't know.But you're right, the Torrent kids belong in there right at the e ...

It's the year 2000 and I have an app to tell you about. It's this one app that you download to your computer and you can access every song that has ever been recorded anywhere, all without paying a dime. No, to be clear, I'm not talking about Napster.Napster is in the middle of being sued absolutely out of existence. I'm talking about an app called Lime Wire, and Lime Wire is going to fix what went wrong for Napster. From the Virgin of Ox Media, this is Version History, a show about the best and worst and s ...