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Gnutella, including popular clients like LimeWire, were released around the same time as Windows 2000. People were doing decentralized filesharing of files larg
by semi-extrinsic 3y ago
Gnutella, including popular clients like LimeWire, were released around the same time as Windows 2000. People were doing decentralized filesharing of files larger than 1.44 MB just fine in 2000.
Filesharing at that time was just wild, by the way. It was far too easy to set up your client such that you were sharing the entire contents of your computer with the whole internet. More often than not, this was done by the kids in the family on the same machine where mom and dad had their work stuff plus their private finances.
So of course the files were leaked. If you were intending to share something illegal to distribute outside the US, you could easily get plausible deniability just by sharing everything on your computer and feigning ignorance.
- NL807 3y agoeDonkey and eMule was fire during those years.
- nurettin 3y agowith dc++ and a fiber network connecting major universities in Germany at 10MegaBytes/s, it was more than fire. I remember downloading the entire ** trilogy in minutes.
- nirav72 3y agoBack in those days you didn't even need to be on LimeWire or eMule to look at the contents of someone's home PC. I remember around the late 90s/early 2000s, when I got DSL. This is before consumer grade routers became a common thing in the household. So most people had their PC connected directly to their DSL box. Browsing through windows share on other people's home PC was one of this easiest things to do.