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People who pirated in the late 90s and early 00s what is the most dramatic change from then till now? And if you had the power what would you bring back? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There was this Russian website where you could download whole albums for like 50 cents. I absolutely loved it, because as well as current hits it also had the most obscure, crazy stuff, classical music, jazz, and world music. I think they're all in prison now, the guys who ran it.

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There were a handful of them. Two I remember are allofmp3 and something like mp3eagle. One of those introduced me to Muse around the time Black holes and Revelations came out.

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Allofmp3, that was it! I downloaded the Muse albums too. :-)

[–] LoganNineFingers@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Memory unlocked.

I definitely know what you're talking about (dispite not remembering the name of it) but they had everything. And if they didn't, you could request it and they'd find it.

I miss that site now

[–] 1hitsong@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Allofmp3?

[–] LoganNineFingers@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Yes!

Holy cow haha. I "bought" so much music there. They got a ton of obscure gypsy brass band stuff for me when I asked too (Fanfare Ciocarlia)

[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah that's the one. I got so much music from that site.