A bit over a week before, AOL quietly killed off Winamp, the PC-based MP3 player which helped produce the file structure ubiquitous and along with peer-to-peer file-sharing applications like Napster and Gnutella (the latter created by Winamp creator Justin Frankel) ignited a mass outbreak of online audio piracy. Whilst Winamp continued to evolve in the several many years since its'90s heyday, finally publishing versions for Mac and Android, its fate was closed all of the ways straight back in October 2001, when Apple released the iPod, starting its domination of the mobile MP3 player market and dragging iTunes along with this into smothering the market for music playback in the process.
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