Fake system of a down - link song was golden.

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Using Limewire to pirate Limewire Pro

could? Idk bout you but I still can lol

Even if somehow a quarter of the songs you downloaded started with “My fellow Americans…”

SongYouWanted.mp3.txt.rar.zip.lnk.exe

Limewire was the rotten version of Kazaa, Kazaa lite and Bearshare. Loads of viruses and mallware. By the time Limewire was there, torrents were already so much better, but usenet has always been, and still are far superior. I pay €9,50 for usenet and download anything I want. No more streaming services, just fully automated movie and series downloads with Radarr and Sonarr. It runs on my NAS, so every morning I have new episodes downloaded, repaired, extracted, renamed and placed in the right series folders. I have more rights, better quality, no ads, better service, subtitles, log of what I watched with Kodi, I can stream what I want to watch from my NAS from all around the world.

That Turbo-Charged connection was pulling more than 200 KB/s

We all on here pretending Napster wasn't the OG? The transition to kazaa was painful.

lots of free viruses too.

Came here to mention soulseek

Meh mule/donkey network ftw back then!

Any former WinMX heads in the house?

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.)

Quality: 5 stars but it's a 128mb MP3

Ahhhh, back when every punk cover song was done by Pennywise.

Weird Al Yankovic - Oops I'm Pregnant Again (REAL).mp3

They even had "Don't Worry, be Happy" by Bob Marley.

I feel like I have more availability to get what I want now, than when I was using Limewire/Kazaa/Napster/eMule/etc.

If it was super popular, you could get it. If it was obscure, uncommon, niche, and other synonyms, if you did find it 90% of the time it was simply given an incorrect name and wasn't actually what you wanted.

I used to have a demonoid account and kept my seed ratio high just because that private tracker had the biggest collection of random ass music and movies you couldn't find anywhere else. Unreleased shit and whatnot.

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).

Still can brother 🏴‍☠️

Still is

It was FREE.

But at what cost?

Misattribution killed Limewire. Downloading a song that turned out to be something different was annoying, but downloaded porn sometimes turned out to be actual CP.

Funny how, despite corporate trying it's hardest to kill it, we've only managed to get better, more organized and safer with file sharing (and perhaps because of them, in many ways).