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0 pointsfoldr7y ago0 comments

>However nowadays people ditched their desktop computer/node for an iphone, and ISP upload speeds are in most places pretty bad. I think this has crippled p2p services and made centralization more convenient

Most people were on dialup in Napster's heyday, so I don't think that can be the issue. Music files are small.

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buboard7y ago

but phones do not act as always-on nodes like napster or kazaa or torrent nodes did. battery issues + mobile data limits also

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