Directed by Bill S. Preston, Esq.?
That sold me instantly!

Seriously though, I've been wanting to see this. I didn't really follow any of the behind-the-scenes stuff back when Napster was exploding. I just downloaded music in ignorance. This looks like it will be interesting to watch.

And bought!

nice, Napster was a cult back in the days

but...

I'm more of a gamer type, not a document-watcher type, so I'll wait for some gamey release :)

Might be interesting what Henry Rollins has to say.

Might not be interesting what Noel Gallagher has to say.

I didn't watch the movie yet.

Fun fact, by the time Napster went live and then later reborn as commercial platform, it was long over with sharing music and not knowing this is actual illegal. Before people used Bearshare and many other small clients with dozens of custom protocols.
Hell, I downloaded a 3D shooter once in ~200+ little 1024kb rar archives and if one was corrupt...

The education about "you cannot just make digital copies of this data" was pushed in the beginning mainly by Bill Gates and Microsoft. Before you bought a software and with it some support by the author, today you by a limited permission to use the copy you bought until it breaks.

Henry Rollins, Mike D, Alex Winter... had to pick it up. And Lost Boy! Excellent!

Napster?

Didn't notice henry rollins there 'til you mentioned it, cheers :)))

"You won’t be able to get that long-forgotten dial-up modem sound out of your heads once you see this." - Well, I haven't.. I can say it was one of the most wonderful sounds a PC (modem) made.. This and the speaker... It reminds me so much... :D

As for the music, I never got into this mp3 mania. For me, Music = Real record, not mp3, flac or any other digital file.. And although nowadays I can't pay too much for a record, I still find some good prices in my town's recordstores.. Having said all of this, I can't deny how .mp3 changed the music all these years (for better or for worse) but I find myself using it only for convenience (ie. converting my records for use with my mp3 player) rather than for listening pleasure. And I still have my Walkman (although I kept only two cassettes for it) & my Discman..

Hahah thanks for the clip! I liked the end: Lawsuits BAD... well, you never know! :D

Edit: added the quote.

I heard about this documentary when Alex Winter was on Kevin Pollak's Chat Show. It sounds really interesting. I can't pick it up right this moment, as I am still recovering from the Fall Sale, but I will definitely be getting this soon. Thanks for bringing it here, GOG!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGM8PT1eAvY

I had to :P

I remember Napster. It was huge but it kinda passed me as I used local means to get things.
It is kind of incredible that a music industry was able to move from crushing the pirating company to morf it into a meaningless service riddled with DRM to the point they actually offer valid services free of mostly regional and account management restrictions.

I wish gaming industry and TV business would follow.

Nice! Another one with portuguese subtitles! Obrigado ;)

I used Napster for a while back in the day, but not so much as SoulSeek and mIRC to download music and other stuff. Seems like a nice documentary, will get it next month.