You had a gigantic list of servers and didn't have to care if law enforcement managed to ban a few dozen? You could also search for anything shared by your peer

You had a gigantic list of servers and didn't have to care if law enforcement managed to ban a few dozen? You could also search for anything shared by your peers. Major downside was that it wasn't curated and files tended to be shared under a dozen different names, so just because you think you were downloading Debian.iso didn't mean that it wasn't xXx_AnalCompilation5_xXx.avi, you had to check which name was the most frequent to be sure.