WinMX!
Thomas Mennecke publishes yesterday what I have discovered tonight “WinMX PNP Network Mysteriously Ends Operations.” WinMX was my “illegal” weapon of choice for the music business. Napster is almost a wired household word but WinMX lasted longest. Mennecke writes:
During its height, WinMX, developed by FrontCode Technologies, eclipsed the Napster P2P network in not only resourcefulness, but also in population. During mid-2002, its population had reached over 1.5 million simultaneous users. With an active community, plenty of independent user forums and steady development it appeared there was nothing that could stop this network.
The social/legal implications of this Blog post are somewhat detailed in “lines in the rasx context: 1990s and beyond” here at kintespace.com. The Muze Enclyopedia of Popular Music is long gone somewhere else… And I still have more CDs to rip than songs to think of getting online.