# Mp3 trading thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-trading-thread/36580>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 11, 2000, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-trading-thread/36580 "2000-10-11T18:55:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Nukeman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce7236/32.png) [@Nukeman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nukeman)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-trading-thread/36580/1 "2000-10-11T18:55:08Z")

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## seeing as Napster will soon be closing down, I thought we could try trading here. I have these Mp3s if anyone is interested:

Aerosmith - Pink  
Theme - American Beauty  
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA  
Counting Crows - Colorblind  
Counting Crows - Mrs. Potters Lullaby  
Eagles - Hotel California  
Elvis - Blue suede shoes  
" hound dog  
Everclear - Wonderful  
Guess Who - American Woman  
Marvin Gaye - Lets get it on  
Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing  
Queen - bohemian rapsody  
Queen - we are the champions  
Red hot chilli peppers - californication  
Red hot chilli peppers - under the bridge  
Red hot chilli peppers - Scar tissue  
REM - Losing my religion  
REM - man on the moon  
REM - shiny happy people  
REM - the great beyond  
REM - whats the frequency, Kenneth  
Steve Winwood - Back in the High life  
The great depression - There there  
The Police - Every breath you take  
The Police - every little thing she does is magic  
U2 - sunday bloody sunday  
U2 - sweetest thing  
U2 with or without you

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**Author:** ![Myrr21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Myrr21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrr21)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-trading-thread/36580/2 "2000-10-11T19:17:48Z")

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**cough**  
**choke**  
**sputter**

Oooh boy :rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-trading-thread/36580/3 "2000-10-11T19:34:25Z")

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Quite a collection you’ve got there!

Bwahahahahahaha!

Son, I think you may have missed a few of the MP3 threads around here. Try doing a search. I myself have a miniscule (compared to others here) collection of around a thousand MP3s. I don’t think anyone wants to scroll through, nor bog the servers down with massive text files placed here.

I’m not even going to go into the fact that it doesn’t matter if Napster closes or not, due to Gnutella, Napigator(and all the associated non-Napster nap servers) and umm, I can’t think of the other one…

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**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-trading-thread/36580/4 "2000-10-11T19:38:06Z")

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**Moderator’s Notes:**  
It is the official view of the Straight Dope® and the Chicago Reader® that MP3 trading is likely a copyright infringement, and as such, illegal. As a publishing business that relies heavily on strong copyright laws, we will not allow this sort of activity here.

I’m posting this and locking this thread for now, so you’ll know why it disappears tomorrow when I delete it entirely. Please don’t do this again. Thank you.

UncleBeer, for the SDMB.