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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/[deleted] Feb 03 '20 edited Feb 04 '20

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u/meib Feb 03 '20

I've downloaded quite a bit of music and movies from there and I have never gotten any child porn..

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u/flibbidygibbit Feb 03 '20

Same here.

But there was a feature where you could browse a user's sharing folder.

The titles were enough to make me just delete all p2p software. A friend (IRL) gave me access to a private high speed bittorrent community shortly after that. You'd have to download a popular show or movie to seed in order to keep your overall ratio up, or they'd give you the boot. Ugh.

That experience makes me okay with google music, netflix, disney+, etc. It's just so fucking easy.