Quite the non sequitur here lol: > The belief that somehow everything is free on the internet was widespread in the late 1990s. Sites were overwhelmingly free

Quite the non sequitur here lol: > The belief that somehow everything is free on the internet was widespread in the late 1990s. Sites were overwhelmingly free and if MP3 files were spotted by an alert surfer, it was almost considered rude not to download them, bandwidth permitting.