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It's amazing Limewire didn't destroy the entire western PC market.
Documents that are actually malicious .exes.
Hollywood movies that are actually scat/CP/gore.
Game installers that are actually viruses.
Popular bands .mp3 songs that are actually Wesley Willis.
... on second thought. the last one was OK.
Rock over London Rock on Chicago Wheaties, breakfast of champions.
Rock roll mcdonaldssssss
I discovered file sharing in the early days of Napster. When that went away a lot of people flocked to Limewire, but after trying it for a night or two I said "no way, José" and never opened that crap application again, polluted with spam and fishy files.
Right around this time, Audiogalaxy started growing, and that's the first time I came across a game-changing feature: you could resume a download even after you had been accidentally booted from the dial-up connection! This was astounding to me at the time, like magic to my primitive mind.
Porn that was that middle eastern dude getting his head cut off
Wesley Willis is a GOD what the hell is he doing on this list of "bad things?!"
I was a dumb kid but even I recognized the 7kb zip files that showed up no matter what I searched for probably weren't legit.