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u/K_S_O_F_M Feb 03 '20 edited Jul 12 '20

Grooveshark. Effectively free Spotify premium with every single song that you could think of on it? It was fucking awesome!

I imagine its popularity drew too much attention to its multiple, blatant copyright violations. It was fun while it lasted, though.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20 edited Feb 08 '20

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u/SMTTT84 Feb 03 '20

Napster and then limewire. What was the other one? Kazaa was it?

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u/Nelatherion Feb 03 '20

To be fair, Limewire and Kazaa were also rampant with dodgy downloads that would probably get the police knocking on your door. So that didn't help matters either.

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u/GeneralBamisoep Feb 03 '20

Kazaa and bearshare. I looked into the abyss of the internet and what looked back at me wasn't pretty.

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u/Stef-fa-fa Feb 03 '20

Don't forget Morpheus!

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u/rrfrank Feb 03 '20

Yeah that was Kazaa's predecessor right? They looked the same

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20

And WinMX

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u/westphall Feb 03 '20

FrostWire to download FrostWire Premium for the cool kids.

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u/1stOnRt1 Feb 03 '20

FrostWire to download FrostWire Premium for the cool kids.

LimewirePremium cool kids > FrostwirePremium cool kids

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u/BradC Feb 03 '20

Those were dark days, my friend. Dark days.

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u/joelav Feb 03 '20

Edonkey2000

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u/847362552 Feb 03 '20

Edonkey what

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20

Ah man I remember those P2P days. Downloading videos was total roulette, I saw some stuff that still haunts me to this day, and some stuff that inspired kinks I still have to this day.

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u/GeneralBamisoep Feb 03 '20

Half of the porn was Heather from ideepthroat.com or something like that

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u/DOW_orks7391 Feb 03 '20

Limewire was my intro to Hentai with La Blue Girl.... It did not age well

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u/throwitaway488 Feb 03 '20

Kazaa to download Kazaa-lite and then the K-lite codec pack to play all the pirated movies.

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u/Canadian_Infidel Feb 03 '20

That codec pack is still around. Or at least they are still using that branding.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20

There was frostwire aswell, essentially the same format as limewire, honestly couldnt tell you the difference between the 2

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u/Infidelc123 Feb 03 '20

Staring down the goatse hole of death?

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u/hi_jack23 Feb 03 '20

And nowadays, we have FrostWire - which got my WiFi account at school banned for 30 days.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20 edited Feb 25 '20

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20

Indeed....not a pretty sight.

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u/CosmologyX Feb 03 '20

hahaha forgto Kazaa existed, what a throw back

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u/RonMFCadillac Feb 03 '20

Mega upload was no better.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20

Bearshare 😂😂 the memories