Faded to Black - Napster

True Crimecast

Stove Leg Media

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In 1999 our favorite albums were nearly $20, which is a lot of money if you're in high school and have no job. However, a software company called Napster came to our rescue. With this software, we had all of the world's music available at just the click of a mouse (and 4,728 minutes of wait time.). Over 60 million users of this service enjoyed unlimited downloads of our favorite artists. But one day, the music died. What happened? This episode is fully available for all supporters of True Crimecast on Patreon. To hear the rest of today's Patreon episode, visit www.patreon.com and subscribe. You will get a bonus episode every month, plus early and ad-free content. Thank you to all of our current Patreon members! We couldn't do this without you!

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0:00.0	Stoveleg Media, igniting conversation.
0:04.0	Welcome to True Crimecast, Patreon edition.
0:26.9	I'm John here with Jamie.
0:28.7	How you doing, man?
0:29.6	Doing all right, buddy.
0:31.1	It's hard to believe that another month has gone by.
0:34.3	I feel like we are doing these very often, which love doing them. A lot of fun,
0:39.8	happy to do it. It just seems like it's, I don't know, a little sooner than normal.
0:45.4	Is 2025 the fastest year of your existence? Because it feels like that to me. Yeah, I think
0:51.0	every year feels faster maybe. I don't know as you get older. It's October, man.
0:56.6	Yesterday was New Year. It was pretty close. Man, good Lord. Well, guys, we appreciate you all sticking
1:02.8	around. I feel like, man, we're on officially year eight now. Is that true? November.
1:11.2	November will be.
1:12.4	Our first episode came out in November of 2017.
1:19.5	Did we both say that with a question mark?
1:21.9	Yeah, because I feel like I remember.
1:24.3	I'm going to double check. Let's see.
1:26.7	A lot of you guys have been around since very, very early in our podcasting profession
1:32.9	or career.
1:33.7	The first episode called Genesis came out November 7th, 2017.
1:39.7	So just completely grateful and humbled that you all paid to hear these two idiots talk about a
1:47.1	crime. But so very thankful. We could not do this without you. In fact, there's been times over
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