In 2007? Damn I feel sorry for you

Somehow it was actually my dad downloading the things and then making me burn CDs of what he got, in 2007 (Yay Nero!) To be fair, he was always downloading a bunch of stuff from our local BBSs in the early 90s, too.

Thankfully we had a second phone line just for that... my folks couldn't get DSL until 2012, and only last year was able to move from DSL to gigabit fiber. (Both because of legislative attempts to bring better internet to rural areas, the local cable monopoly still won't lay cable out there)

No one wants a phone without a keyboard. My dad is sticking with his blackberry.

It's now the name of a crypto token. Why? I have no idea.

They put a backdoor in the software to disable it, but the underlying P2P network (gnutella) should technically still work. But you shouldn't even try, there's much more active alternatives.

I was surprised 5 months ago that Limewire has morphed into doing short-term, web-based, file-hosting under the name filetransfer.io

I needed to share a video, larger than attachment size. Searched for 'fileshare online'.

The video successfully hosted for free, and was viewed.

No report on how many viruses the viewer picked up /s.

Snapdrop was sold to Limewire recently

Or that one "System of a Down" Zelda song

"I'm the Only Gay Eskimo", by Tenacious D (Kevin swears it's them)

Dr. Demento - Windows 95 sucks (Bob Rivers)
and
R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders - My Girl's Pussy

Soulseek is the current best alternative for music downloading. No viruses disguised as music, afaik

I would actually use Audio-Galaxy Satellite P2P again to find new music.

Had one of the best artist recommendation algorithms ever.

For your local music library tastes, it would first crossmatch to find other users who had the most similarity to your collection, then recommend you the artists that they had, that you didn't.

Simple and elegant.

* As mentioned elsewhere, Nicotine/Soulseek is the modern leader for recommendations.

if you give it to AI you'll get an answer that's also incorrect.

Does it say Weird Al?

I remember every parody saying Weird Al, and online campaigns to have people label things "Not Weird Al" so it would still come up in searches but people would know it wasn't actually Weird Al.

Worth running them through musicbrainz Picard scanner. I think most from that era will have a signature added to he db. (Assuming you've not tried this.)

Metallicock! 🤟

no vpns, no antivirus software, just downloading pirated music that may or may not take 217846127841 days to download.

It was just so much simpler then. Aside from the viruses.

Fun fact: soulseek is still running, and you can use nicotine plus today. Still one of the best places for music sharing.

I don't. Those were some rough times, when you didn't know whether or not you'd get the actual MP3, or a recording of a Bill Clinton impersonator selling something. These days it's a lot easier to find direct downloads to the exact track you want, in a guaranteed 320Kbps MP3 or even a lossless format like FLAC.

Feels like 8 viruses were standard with any Limewire / Kazaa install! Lol

Yeah, the banner ads on MySpace alone would give you more viruses than that from a single page.

Most the XP machines I had to wipe back then probably had more lines of malware code than OS.

So, how does the Bandcamp thing work? Can you pay for files that you download and then own?

I wish foobar was on Linux

Lol inconvenient?? Bandcamp's whole selection is like 3% of the music that exists, tops. Try to download a Jay-Z or Eagles album off there. You will surely not be disappointed.

"You deleted 7 entire TV series unwatched due to not being able to find a single episode that your brain wouldnt let you skip"

I still have the vcd of my copy of fight club. it's such a shitty copy but it adds to the dirt and grime of the actual movie.

Bodies_hit_the_floor_teenage_wasteland.mp3.exe

Lidarr is heavily lacking for my artists, missing a significant amount of information as their database relies on cache atm, or something. Still, it occasionally downloads some stuff from Slskd. Speaking of Soulseek I find it weird that edited searching for Lady Gaga never returns results. Only for her song or album names.