1996 proved to be quite an infamous year for the Internet. It was in this year that the first pirated song, 'Until it sleeps' by Metallica, was illegally copied from CD and made available on the Internet as a compressed MP3 file. Another advancement brought to mainstream was the use of compression. A 50MB song could now be compressed into 3 or 4Mb, allowing the past problem of hard drive space to become obsolete.
These two discoveries gave way to the creation of programs like Limewire and Napster. I found this particular chapter to be quite compelling because it hit close to home. I was in 7th grade when a close friend showed me the wonders of pirated music via Limewire, but the joy was short lived because of the numerous viruses accumulated due to malicious documents people put on the program.
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