Why did this stop being a thing

Why did this stop being a thing

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What do you mean? Torrents still exist. Limewire was just a torrent client with a shitty P2P search engine built in.

>radiohead_-_woohoo (HQ).exe

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Police raid.

I have to assume Sup Forums loved that thing since every 2nd download ended up being hardcore gay porn regardless of the filename

torrents happened

When people discovered Frostwire.

Hello ribbit

>use LimeWire to download LimeWire Pro

Modern equivalent of that seems to be Tribler. But a shitty p2p search is better than relying on a single website for torrents and magnet links.

These are people in this thread too young to remember napster

times change

It was the age of possibility
The Internet was so much better back then
Now it's under the control of few companies and walled gardens

Attached pic is the exact time the Internet turned sour
When google from a simple search engine enabled accounts and doubled down on advertising by indexing user content

This. AND the last time I used it several years back, it was also almost exactly like LW.
Yes, even that.

Tribler also thrashed the FUCK out of hard drives, which is why I stopped using it.

Still can't believe I got away with some of the shit I downloaded there in my teens.

Searches were a bandwidth hog for the network, you were only downloading from one peer, and malware.
Torrents work better.

>limewire
>not bearshare

>There are people in this thread too young to remember when napster was free

> not eMule

I remember being like 10 years old and downloading those stupid meme songs off Napster at a friend's house. They were like Elmo rap remixes and shit, the good ol days

i pirated the shit out of limp bizkit on napster

then I burned cds on my $249 HP 4x cd-burner when blank cds were still like 75 cents a pop

the devil knows. i did this with linkin park back in 7th or 8th grade and sold them for 2 bucks

Emule was better of torrent.
Torrent force the user to delete the files, emule can keep it in seed. Yes, if you are retarder you end up with virus or porn, or movies when you need porn..

>downloading those stupid meme songs off Napster at a friend's house. They were like Elmo rap remixes and shit, the good ol days

Took me back. Nobody does shit like that anymore.

podophile haven

>tfw when audiogalaxy is ded

>Tfw youre young and youre looking for music off limewire then random videos of beastiality pthc dad kiddie fucker pops up in the results

I feel like napster and limewire started me off knowing more than i should as a kid. Still though i always had some good music.

>tfw start playing the latest lil' cease album and goatse.cx installs itself on my parents PC instead

It is still a thing, Soulseek somehow avoided the V&

it's only used for music though

>try to download literally anything
>get pozzed by a virus
Kids using this shit destroyed so many computers, myself included

>not Kazaa

>2017
>hasnt installed demonsaw yet
Kek

>he didn't deliberately try to turn his pc into a machine that would sack troy

because of torrents.