Nine years ago, my English teacher (I "majored" in English & French in my last 2 years in school, which means that those 2 classes had a bigger weight than the others on my final grade) asked me to give a short summary of a TIME magazine article about Napster in class. I still remember how fascinated I was with this story at that time, as it provided a good view into the background story of the initial development of Napster.

In a way, Napster changed the world. Peer-to-Peer networks are more than common nowadays, filesharing is an issue more than ever before. That's why reading this article again made me see it in a different light, at that time I did not fully understand the impact that one teenager would have on the content industry.

The article from October 2000 can be found for free on the TIME magazine website under Meet the Napster.