Those were the days. I remember how there used to be so many arguments and petty battles about which protocol or extension to use, and all the incompatible clie

Those were the days. I remember how there used to be so many arguments and petty battles about which protocol or extension to use, and all the incompatible clients and how one client maker would add an extension that would break other clients. There were so many vested interests, including the music industry giants who also had their internal clients being developed. And the bittorrent came and overtook all of them pretty quickly. The file-sharing scene looked calm from the outside, but on the inside the wars and the intrigues were vicious.