Is IPTV the Platonic ideal of internet whining?

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Supernova and revolutiontt ha. DVD tower burning 6 discs at one. Pc on all night smashing torrents . Even the light scribe DVD burners printed pics on top of the discs.

Used lime wire for a long time remember a friend download a film on it and it took a whole week for a cam job. His missus going mad because she couldn’t use the phone while it was connected on the old dial up with aol

Yes I remember downloading a album and it was animal porn to lol. Took ages to was gutted
 
yah used edonkey and limewire.

soulseek was were all the real good stuff was though. filled with niche collectors of non mainstream music, it was a political minefield.

you could ban users from looking at your stuff so if someone thought your collection was too mainstream or you didnt have a high enough av upload rate then you could jget banned from even browsing their stuff.

spent hours curating a really boss underground house and techno collection and if i hit someone with the ban hammer then they'd beg to be let back. after months of being the one begging to be allowed to download from people with rare tracks i felt like i had earned my dues and was a real dictator haha

also managed to blag access to some 0day ftp servers too where you could grab releases before they went near p2p networks which meant my soulseek library was a goto place. haha was a true megalomaniac in those days
 
What was the one where it used to scan your shared folder? there were dozens of 'rooms' you could browse but for some you needed a minimum of 100gb of share folder, others only needed 500mb but these tended to be crap, some where music only and others didnt allow XXX
 
no idea, it was about 15 years ago, probably more, I was still using Win ME then.
Was into usenet and newsgroups etc so didn't do much filesharing in that sense as 99% of stuff was available on Virgin's own servers if you were quick as they still had a 3 day binary retention back then
 
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