What Ever Happened to Napster? From MP3 Rebellion to Streaming Blueprint
Napster made digital music feel limitless for the first time, then vanished in lawsuits, rebrands, and sales. Its name faded, but its ideas still shape how the world listens.
Transmission torrent client just got a major performance upgrade
After an extensive beta period, Transmission 4.10 improves torrent download performance, expands IPv6 support, and reduces CPU usage. It also includes dozens of refinements across all platforms, keeping the client lightweight, and reliable as longtime users often put it.
The MP3 is almost 30, and it still sounds like the early internet
Through the looking glass: Nearly three decades after its US patent date, the MP3 is no longer the cutting edge of audio compression. Yet support for it remains ubiquitous in media players, browsers, automotive systems, and embedded devices. For many people, it also evokes a particular moment in internet culture, when ripping, cataloging, and sharing files felt like core digital rituals rather than background processes handled by cloud services.
Napster, the original P2P file sharing service, just sold for $207 million
Napster is still making noise a quarter-century later
US universities miss the mark with outdated P2P file sharing warnings about Napster and Limewire
For today's students, those turn-of-the-century systems are ancient history
BitTorrent dethroned as the main source of internet's upstream traffic
File sharing protocol is now being superseded by streaming and cloud storage
Open source qBittorrent client adds I2P support
qBittorrent 4.6 has launched with experimental BitTorrent over I2P (Invisible Internet Protocol) support, enabling encrypted and anonymized torrenting. For those unfamiliar with I2P, it utilizes destinations instead of IP addresses and ports.
Anti-piracy coalition helped dismantle Evo piracy group
A major threat to the movie industry gone silent, and it likely won't come back
House of the Dragon beats The Rings of Power on pirate sites
In a nutshell: While not a widespread phenomenon anymore, piracy continues to drive a significant amount of Internet traffic around the world. TV shows like House of the Dragon and Lord of the Rings are particularly popular, even though the former seems to be way more interesting for P2P pirates.
qBittorrent is a fully featured yet lightweight BitTorrent client
qBittorrent is our preferred BitTorrent in Windows: it's free and open-source, uses little RAM and sports an anonymous mode for better privacy.
Meet Utopia: new P2P decentralized platform adds a layer of privacy to online communication
Utopia, by definition, means a place or state in which everything is perfect
Banks' real-time Venmo competitor arrives this month
Six years in the making, Zelle is finally launching this month
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