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#193 – Rob Reid: The Existential Threat of Engineered Viruses and Lab Leaks

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Napster and Music Sales Start to Get Gutted

Napster allowed people to download songs and have the MP3s on their hard drives. But there was a lot that was very messy about the Napster experience, he says. The music industry is quite understandably in a state of shock and fury over what they saw as an existential threat within a year or two. "You can't put the genie back in the bottle. You can't switch off the internet"

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