At the turn of the millennium, if you wanted an artist’s newest album, you almost certainly had to buy it from a physical record store. But by the early 2000s, two guys in their twenties upended the music industry with one of the most iconic peer-to-peer file-sharing services, Napster. Sydnee Washington, Marie Faustin, and the host of Broken Record podcast Justin Richmond go back to that strange time and question whether users were stealing music or just sharing it.

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