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Burning CDs and Using LimeWire: How We Downloaded Music in the Early 2000s

Before streaming, downloading music meant burning CDs from LimeWire and other file-sharing programs that followed Napster's shutdown — the messy, spyware-riddled way a generation got its music in the early 2000s.

Music & Audio

Napster: The Eighteen Months That Broke the Music Industry

A college dropout's dorm-room program let an entire generation download any song ever recorded for free — and nothing about music has been the same since.