Napster Documentary 'Downloaded' | Part One

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Director Alex Winter's documentary recalls the groundbreaking launch of Napster and the legal battles that sank the company. Downloaded focuses on two teenage friends, Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, who came up with a groundbreaking internet start-up while they were in college, dropped out and moved to northern California to launch their company.
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About 'Downloaded': Director Alex Winter's documentary recalls the groundbreaking launch of Napster and the legal battles that sank the company.
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[@PeeedaPan]

there's something cool about being born in the 80s and growing up with the internet when it was slow and didn't have all the features it has today and then seeing how it evolved over the next 20 years

[@braxtongreenwell5482]

Looking back at my life, I appreciate the journey.

[@FilthTribeFTP]

Serio holmes! I'll always miss logging onto MSN Gaming Zone and paying Age of Empires II with my clan, lol.

[@TheRedRaven_]

Uh yeah, these guys were prodigies, originalists.

[@1on1c5]

you got that right 100% man! I remember in 98' I bought a Compaq Pressario desktop with a 12 GB HD. because of Napster it was full quickly! great memories of burning CD's for friends and bringing to house parties.

[@gone.golfing]

Yea but us 80s babies got dealt a bad hand with the job market. Badly.

[@covidoff]

This really was the defining moment of the internet. People being given the ability to freely connect and share stuff created by a random dude who also just wanted to share stuff. Those were awesome days

[@gmar7836]

True but also some evil doings came from sharing on the internet also

[@zippodbeebilbroxen3016]

This makes me feel so nostalgic. It makes me feel old too. Brings a tear to my eye.

[@aman-mn5kc]

Remember when put my own band in the folder and users starts to download it, one could make a chat with them. "Do you like this???". "Yes my friend played this songs at a party". Mega cool and some downloaded of just curiosity.

[@user-pq6mr6op3p]

I hated people like you subjecting your crappy attempt at music upon people who didn't want it.

[@fdasdf455555]

Musicians should be honored that millions of people would be willing to download their music and be willing to listen to it. By letting people listen to their music, they can live on in people's minds well after they're dead. Be thankful.

[@MattSezer]

And they'll be dead soon because they'll starve to death because millions of listens doesn't equal money that you need to buy food so you don't starve to death.

[@fdasdf455555]

The money they can make from ads before their songs play and in concerts should be plenty... if they're liked by enough people.

[@MattSezer]

Somebody on the internet saying it "should be plenty" doesn't make it true. Streaming revenue is fractions of pennies. A million views on KZbin will barely pay for a month's living expenses. Yes, if you're really popular, then you can still make money, but what if you're not extremely popular? Before, independent artists with niche followings could make decent livings, but now they're either forced to compromise their art to become more popular or be broke. And before you say they should do it for the love of it, in many cases they do. However, if you're working a full-time day job, you can't focus on your art as much and the end product suffers. It was ridiculous for the industry to expect people to pay close to $20 for CDs and not embrace digital technology until everybody was already doing it illegally. However, that doesn't justify not paying for something you otherwise would have bought.

[@kshinokevin]

Napster, Limewire, Bear Share, KaZaa = great times...

[@apex_prey]

I lowkey miss that dial-up sound. That iconic "Welcome!" and "You've got mail!"

[@GooglyBear]

song @ 1:14 is B- Side Wins Again (2005) · DJ Spooky · Dave Lombardo

[@joeblow8593]

Well, I did enjoy the 14 minutes. Wished they had the rest at AOL. (Link didn't go to chapter 2)

[@natedoggcata]

This documentary has basically vanished off the face of the earth. You cant buy it anywhere, its not on any streaming services, no physical edition to buy and ironically I cant even find it on pirate sites to download

[@k_zildjian4460]

$18 CD's is what led to Napster.

[@saysthemanbehindthemask]

seriously? So let's say an album has 9 songs which normally it has more... but as an example 9 songs in an album. Which makes each song cost $2. If you buy coffee for example in Starbucks your cup of coffee costs more than a song! You think it's as easy to write a song a it is to make a cup of coffee? I hope you don't and i hope you don't think that a cup of coffee is worth more than an actual song. Now think for a second if the current state of music is fair towards a good musician. This is one of the reasons mainstream music sucks so bad, because a lot actually talented musicians are not being given a fair chance. Masses prefer to have shit poured into their ears with lyrics that mean nothing and go " Oh oh , Ah Ah" instead of writing real lyrics.

[@TheBudgie29]

Lance RaifordAnd Now In 2018 they can't even give those CD's Away. How things change so fast.

[@kendrick10601]

@@saysthemanbehindthemask musicians weren't getting their fair share... they used to get 1$ per album sold. Nowadays, artist make money on shows... this is why there's so many mixtapes and singles out there. As for mainstream music, it sucks because it became too easy to produce... you just need a macbook pro and very few basic knowledge and the program does it all for you.

[@saysthemanbehindthemask]

Well even if an entire band gets a dollar per record sold 1m records is a 1m dollars! That’s not a small sum. Also you are wrong. It really depended on a record deal it varies from act to act. For example Drummer and a songwriter of the same band usually do not get paid the same amount. It’s a little more complex than just getting a buck for record sold. Live shows were always there and I believe live shows were more in demand than today, because there was no internet so it was a lot harder to see a live show apart from actually being at the show or only on TV. But now you find out a band is with their new tour cycle you will most likely find the entire set on YT. It happened to me several times that I watched a show online than went to see them live and it was basically the same thing. So it’s less likely people will go to see a live show when they can see it for free once again in comfort of their home. My point is live shows were always there so were endorsements of all sorts PLUS record sales so I don’t really see the point you are trying to make. Mixtapes and singles are out because people don’t buy albums anymore! There is no need for an entire album when you can download only the songs you like. There is no connection to live shows whatsoever. Regarding self produced music yes it’s true techically anyone can make music, upload online and have it exposed to millions of potential listeners, but because it’s so simple million’s of people do it around the world which creates a huge pool of information and huge competition, so the good stuff gets lost in all that noise. And it’s a shame because there are a lot of great artists there that will never be heard because of the volume of information that is being pumped into the web. I don’t think you got the point of my original comment

[@kendrick10601]

@@saysthemanbehindthemask But how many band / artist used to sell 1m record? Again, a tiny minority. ''Sales'' didn't dissapear as you make it seem... they were just replaced by streams. Now, say you produced an album of 10 song, you used to get 1$ per album sold, so 0,1c per songs. Well Tidal offers 0,01 per stream, spotify 0,004 and apple music 0,007... with tidal you bet that someone will listen the song 10x, spotify 25x and apple 14x. As for live shows... a ticket cost way more now than before even when you adjust the price for inflation. A ''ok'' ticket for a Drake concert is atleast 100$. Yes he is sold out every year U2 earned $54 million this year, from those 52 came from live shows globalnews.ca/news/4351915/alan-cross-how-musicians-make-money/ . Drake and the migos did 79 millions with 54 showcase... and this is just north america. Nowadays you have a higher buying power in developing countries, if they know their artist might no come for 2-3 years, they spend the money to see him/her live regardless.

[@PeepGamePopoff]

Miss these times fr

[@DbeatPR24187]

people don't know how legendary napster is

[@CelineTeoBlockey]

Folks who have Netflicks, search for it there. It's a must-see documentary for any music lover.

[@matthewwilton7778]

Only part 1? Good job aol, no wonder aol is such a force to be reckoned with

[@1on1c5]

Loading up songs on Napster through Dial-Up and going to bed, hoping the completed in the morning.

[@RiffRaffMama.]

And that nobody called your house half way through.

[@mofojackson]

Seriously though where can we watch the rest of this?

[@Lotus_Lenex]

Omg. Winamp! That takes me back..

[@geekrockrats]

It's really bizarre hearing someone say "what is the internet" even 20 years ago. It's like saying "what is a phone?"

[@jameysummers1577]

Back in 1990 my social studies teacher told us that soon there would be these letters on everything you buy and see, and those are WWW. I thought at the time that he was crazy.

[@richradtylr4]

boomers. lol

[@dmarjonsey947]

Thank you Shawn!

[@GantzIsSloppy]

This should've been a biopic way before Facebook

[@ZacBLive]

Ehh… EVERYONE uses Facebook.

[@gmar7836]

@@ZacBLive not everyone. Also FB lost a lot of users last year.

[@Benimation]

The link doesn't work.. Is it because I'm clicking on it in the Netherlands?

[@hamarana]

Napster was the only one chance the companies had to control piracy because they were the ones who brought together all the pirate-customers in the world. Just a little bit of intelligence, smart moves, would have been enough to register everyone in the world and offer them a better deal. That way both parties would have won. The anger afterwards just made nerds slash back! Lives and big opportunities destroyed because of greed, fear and shortsightedness

[@braxtongreenwell5482]

Does anyone know where I can find this movie?

[@JamesWilliams-t2u]

I''l never forget being in work and I downloaded napster. The concept of getting free music seemed insane. I typed the song name, it downloaded in about 30 seconds and I had it playing and I just recall smiling and thinking something big was about to happen :) I called my friend over, he said see if they have breathless by coors, 30 seconds later, it was playing and he did the same :)

[@tutankamon995]

What the? Fantastic - "VIDEO UNAVAILABLE DUE TO LOCATION"

[@dcprime]

Is there any way to watch this film in Canada? All links online say "not available in your country"!

[@lilianesite2]

Pearl Jam - Wishlist and Pink Floyd - On The Turning Away. the first 2 songs i downloaded. good times.

[@ausroyal]

It's ironic that I had to pirate this documentary because I wouldn't watch it due to being outside the USA.

[@marialee5643]

ausroyal where did you get the full documentary?

[@ausroyal]

I didn't, can't get it if you're outside the USA.

[@zoltanschannel]

part 2 not on youtube. sucks. guess aol doesn't get the spirit of napster

[@aoloriginals]

This was actually a VH1 problem! Ironic though, huh?

[@TymphaRedbreaduwuowo]

bullshit; you guys uploaded it

[@deltakid0]

Part 2 is not available even at the AOL site but, like everything nowadays, you can find the whole documentary by searching at Google

[@scottyrill1257]

Here's the whole thing - www.documentarymania.com/playerf.php?title=Downloaded

[@note2owns]

You can't blame Napster. It was the equivalent of taking an album you purchased over to a friend's house and letting them borrow it, only streamlined. The ones that should be scrutinized is the programmers who write the programs that allow a person to rip cds to a computer. I think most artist had the perception that the mp3s were on Napsters server.

[@maxdondada]

It's sad how history dosnt ever reward the true heros

[@hopperthemarxist8533]

Don't most people have Spotify now? This makes me want to go back to downloading music for free and not paying for it.

[@slipk0rvayne17]

why pay for it.. when its free?

[@r3alphasigma]

There's definitely some parallel in the OLD vs New Guard of information. 2002 vs 2022

[@derFeind]

God I love Winamp

[@paulj0557tonehead]

I like how the news people pronounce internet, "IN TER net".

[@dariofocardi125]

Where can i find part 2 outside USA?

[@marialee5643]

Dario Focardi Download Tor Browser. It uses the IP of other contries so you can watch the video even if you're not in the USA

[@Humphr3y_]

Where is part 2 did James Hetfield take it down too

[@TheAimirak]

napster, audio galaxy, then limewire for a LONG time, but only after i got DSL / cable. when i first got internet in 1995, it was through the house phone (long distance call...ouch back then) @ 28.8/kbps on a packard bell 486 and 90% of the current world wide web didn't even exist. geez i'm old.....

[@JamieStreet]

The link to chapter 2 is broken, it comes up with a 8 second clip of dogs hanging out of a car?

[@MemesPachecos]

Can't Watch second part outside the US :(

[@FelipeHenchen]

Its a shame that documentary dont be fully free

[@mofojackson]

Wow cool story, bro!

[@AholicKnight]

I thought I would never hear dial up from the AOL channel.

[@Bencsac]

RIP Limewire

[@mclovinlife4018]

As much as I hated dealing with Napster and limewire, those were the good old days

[@karlbristow1223]

If you want to know why music and music videos are so crap today, it started with napster. Took all the quality out of the industry. Now the focus is endorsements combined with throwaway music.

[@spacet1me]

I was born in 1991, I remember downloaded Napster for the first time on my fuckin 28.8kbps dial-up Internet and when Kazaa first hit was a big moment too. And like eMule or Donkey or some shit. Geeezz....taking me back down nostalgia lane and I'm late for work in my InfoSec gig hahaha.

[@davidofergals6947]

Now napster can take a nap.

[@cameronbrown387]

Look at everything that has went out of business thanks to the internet

[@siientsinger6637]

IT WAS GREAT ! i think i rang 4 people up at gone midnight to say i'd managed to download "Helter Skelter" in a week , and they didn't believe my TINY ( Tiny, what happened to them ?) was that fast ,,,, 1 UK pence a minute in 1998 , AOL , i remember it so well i was planning doing the whole White Album and stay up every night .... Love it ,, i always say, still do, if you download an album and it is top notch, A/ if its your favourite band etc your'e gonna buy it for collection , B/ Artistes losses have been made back, paid back to them a BILLION TIMES more $$$$$$ C/ Piracy didn't kill music. SIMON COWELL did . Thanks for the memories ,,, i;m going "bareback " on the piratebay.org now lol, no VPN ,

[@GantzIsSloppy]

still waiting for a Biopic

[@ohmnitrix4209]

lol Fannings entire family has buzz cuts

[@jameysummers1577]

Ahhh, the days of Bulletin board systems. It took forever to download porn off of the bulletin board systems.

[@ankurshah23]

1:07 "and waits for a response" Everything was right till then. Then the government and some narrowminded musicians killed it. This is exactly the same stage Bitcoin was at one time "and waits for a response" and now it is thriving.

[@delmohopkins1959]

I ripped of sooooo much music thanks to napster

[@billmacnab7904]

Another documentary ruined by loud background music. Fuck.

[@scottnagy2009]

this link does not take you to part 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Cyber_Noot]

RIP WinMX

[@rockingcockin]

winamp. no one used winmx.

[@jagutichsachma]

+jhgjgk not sure if you are serious. those two are two entirely different things.

[@DrumNbassSets]

Natalie B. U can still use it now but I still use slsk

[@screwyootube1]

WinMX was junk. All it did was search one service that I already used, Kazaa.

[@screwyootube1]

To the best of my knowledge, Winamp was never a filesharing service, only a media player.

[@bdot187um]

part 2?

[@ePacksBagsLuggage]

NAPSTER Pioneered online music, iTUNES stole it and commercialised it! 😤

[@ronniejanuszki]

I miss when CDs dominated.

[@screwyootube1]

Yes and no. I kind of do, but I really enjoy using sound files like MP3 & WAV & a few others. I learned a lot about them, through day-to-day use. And I still occasionally buy CDs, both because I want to support artists, and because I like to have everything that comes with a CD (booklet, pictures, lyrics, etc.). I know some of that can also be gotten by downloading it, but some of it cannot, and the effort isn't really worth it. Besides, a nice CD package cannot REALLY be duplicated by downloading it from the Internet.

[@traskis1321]

whats the name of the first song 1:14 ?

[@GooglyBear]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5zKm35nnLR1oJo

[@riotrock07]

wheres part 2?

[@BryanCastleman]

aol.it/1dj9OLd

[@adiix_way4758]

Guys anyone watching this on 9 july 2021

[@websurferblue]

Yup I used to wear the nautica clothing

[@leonardoduarte9612]

Where the fuck can I watch part 2?

[@droidon]

napster, audiogalaxy, soulseek, pirate bay...just keep on trying champs.

[@OzTurk]

Happy fucking days

[@rymixxx]

Thank goodness the industry woke up and shut down Napster. Now instead of artists getting $0 they now get $0.0000001 per play.

[@mikexxxmilly]

the work you had to go through to get music back then brought more value to actually having it.. Now days, through Spotify etc, its so easy to find whatever you want I feel like we don't appreciate the artists like we used to.

[@whyyoulittle4537]

AAAAAAHHHHHHHH WHERE'S PART 2 AAAAAAHHHHHHH WHERE'S PART 2 AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[@dahooliii]

It sounds interesting.

[@gavindecruz4360]

So very loosely, Napster started torrenting

[@slipk0rvayne17]

the god fathers of torrent

[@TheBudgie29]

The Gods of Torrents

[@roverrr23]

R.I.P. Winamp.

[@frankj8478]

Music industry greed surrendered to Napster.

[@everest88]

basically...money... everything runs on money, stupidity...

[@NemoHoes]

I still have my downloads from Napster lol

[@TheGmc1992]

lol at dr.dre

[@mohammadtari]

Winamp player ... RIP

[@stevegier4001]

dont follow the link to part 2. its just a spammy endless ads vid

[@gmar7836]

Brockton mass is sadly a crap hole. Dangerous too. Glad he got out of there

[@heathiswealth6726]

Does sound a lot like today people saying what is a NFT what is crypto what is defi

[@juliusceasar6002]

He's wired in 7:09.

[@peterhopqk]

Winamp!

[@gamblerpete]

Progress: 99,9%

[@thebossbeastchannel9607]

Napster is my baby

[@retrofan2264]

The devil says it's evil

[@ryzenman6460]

Lose respect for Metallica at this time

[@aoloriginals]

Link for Part Two is in the video description!

[@leonardoduarte9612]

No, your link is broken. There's only some trailers with a hipo baby (????)

[@shushonisshushoni7684]

You suck you know? VIDEO UNAVAILABLE DUE TO LOCATION We're sorry, but the video you are trying to watch cannot be viewed from your current location. Right on the topic of SHARING, ironic, huh?

[@fillanilla4907]

Shushonis Shushoni Using VPN you can change the region of your IP to America.

[@vanrichter8805]

Napster killed all independent music!

[@shuanglyu797]

Ok. Napster sucks. It is a crime to download origin music illegally

[@ciolocaphoto]

part 2?