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It's good that Soulseek exists, but it's way more finicky than LimeWire was and it's significantly less user friendly
These sorts of programs still exist. I use Nictotine, which is based on Medusa, but basically works like a better version of the old MP3 download programs. Good for finding obscure artists.
Soulseek is basically the same thing too, and still works.
Frostwire is still available and it actually works better than Limewire ever did.
And sometimes things you really really didn't want.
"Turbo-Charged Connection"
252kbit/s
Hot damn! I can listen to the song I want about 2 hours from now!
My PC got AIDS once from Limewire Lite, true story.
EDIT : it was Kazaa had a lite version, not Limewire. Good days lol.
Step 1. Download Kazaa Lite Step 2. Use Kazaa Lite to download Kazaa Step 3. Profit
the high seas have grown more treacherous, but you still can.
More treacherous than LimeWire was? I think the fuck not, that boi was filled with Justin_Bieber_Baby.mp3.exe’s
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Today it's harder, not more dangerous.
But also everything is darker.
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Hey does anyone remember searching for the movie XXX with Vin Diesel? What a fun time...
I once downloaded a 650MB movie in less than 10 minutes. I dont know how that was possible at the time as I had a sub 1 mbit line. I just know I went to the bathroom and came back to a downloaded movie. Always figured it was a bug of some kind on the modem as apparently the cable modem was doing the rate limiting.
Fake system of a down - link song was golden.
Link - he come to town He come to save - the princess Zelda
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Among many other misattributed MP3s I downloaded off LimeWire, I remember downloading an mp3 of a "new leaked Nine Inch Nails song" called "Digital" that even had an intro read by a some DJ on a radio station (supposedly).
It ended up not being Nine Inch Nails, but I loved the song anyway, and had no idea what it was until a decade later when I found it again online. Still fuckin rocks too:
Boom Boom Satellites - Push Eject
I also remember a Tetris Theme remix by Aphex Twin that was very much not Aphex Twin.
I also remember downloading the Aphex Twin remix of Beck's "Devil's Haircut"and the remix was so bad I thought it had to be fake (it's not).
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And when you downloaded "Yoursong.mp3.exe" you knew you were about to have the best day ever!
(To this day it amazes me how so many people don't pay attention to file types and keeps them hidden.)
I blame Windows, as it (I believe) hid file extensions of known file types by default. Was it, because it was aesthetically more pleasing? I dunno but it sure was a hazard for the unaware user.
While it's super annoying for the tech savvy, and gives a great opportunity to ill willed tech people, I'm sure it was an idiot proofing move. The average user is a not-so-tech-savvy office person, having relatively fuck all knowledge on extensions, and back in the day pretty much all programs got picky when facing an unknown/unsupported extension. Your average Joe/Jolene opened 'veryimportantspreadsheet.xls', renamed it to 'veryimportantspreadsheetnew' (without the extension), and made it impossible for Excel to open it by double clicking. Then in the best case they triggered an IT support request; in the worst case they reported that the very important spreadsheet got lost/corrupted and data was lost.
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Define free? Constant viruses, trauma from seeing killings and executions. Was it worth it? Sure but it wasn’t free
Can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. Learning to torrent is what greatly increased my computer literacy when I was a kid.
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We all on here pretending Napster wasn't the OG? The transition to kazaa was painful.
We all on here pretending Napster wasn’t the OG? The transition to kazaa was painful.
Napster was feature poor though. CuteMX was much, much better and out while Napster was still running, but it closed down after Napster lost the court case. Feature set was closer to Kazaa, including filters and being able to browse a user's shares.
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