SongYouWanted.mp3.txt.rar.zip.lnk.exe
You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE
Submitted 11 months ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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db2@lemmy.world 11 months ago
OR3X@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Using LimeWire free to download LimeWire Pro. Classic.
Archer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Using Limewire to pirate Limewire Pro
Limonene@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And it was GPL, so it wasn’t even copyright infringement.
Matriks404@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I have never used Limewire, but if they had distributed binaries that you should pay for, it is a copyright infringement, even if you could technically compile it yourself. There are applications that do this and it’s compatible with GPL license.
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
And when you downloaded “Yoursong.mp3.exe” you knew you were about to have the best day ever!
(To this day it amazes me how so many people don’t pay attention to file types and keeps them hidden.)
DmMacniel@feddit.org 11 months ago
I blame Windows, as it (I believe) hid file extensions of known file types by default. Was it, because it was aesthetically more pleasing? I dunno but it sure was a hazard for the unaware user.
Dicska@lemmy.world 11 months ago
While it’s super annoying for the tech savvy, and gives a great opportunity to ill willed tech people, I’m sure it was an idiot proofing move. The average user is a not-so-tech-savvy office person, having relatively fuck all knowledge on extensions, and back in the time pretty much all programs got picky when facing an unknown/unsupported extension. Your average Joe/Jolene opened ‘veryimportantspreadsheet.xls’, renamed it to ‘veryimportantspreadsheetnew’ (without the extension), and made it impossible for Excel to open it by double clicking. Then in the best case they triggered an IT support request; in the worst case they reported that the very important spreadsheet got lost/corrupted and data was lost.
Limonene@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Their entire security model depends on knowing file extensions, but they still hide them. Even if you enable it, there are some extensions that still won’t show, like .lnk (shortcut file). You can absolutely have executable code, and therefore malware in a .lnk file.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And most porn was that middle eastern dude getting his head cut off.
GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 11 months ago
I remember actually searching that one out to see. Strange what you’ll do when you’re a teenager.
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Was that the Chechen rebel video because I hated that
superkret@feddit.org 11 months ago
Fuck you for triggering that memory.
I can still hear the sounds he made.
Vegeta@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Even if somehow a quarter of the songs you downloaded started with “My fellow Americans…”
Prime_Minister_Keyes@lemm.ee 11 months ago
That was painful.
floo@retrolemmy.com 11 months ago
Before torrenting kicked off, this was one of the only ways you could ever get anything. And it was great!
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
You never hung out on IRC warez channels getting stuff by DCC or by trading dodgy FTP servers? Young whippersnapper!
floo@retrolemmy.com 11 months ago
Sure I did. Also, I’m going to go to use net news groups to download stuff. I hated that shit. One of the best things about LimeWire was autoresume downloads that got terminated because your connection dropped.
Dasus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Dc++ as well
rugburn@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Including NIMDA!
RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In 2001 my Uni’s entire campus network was shut down for 3 days to clean up a massive NIMDA infection. Wild times.
HyonoKo@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
That Turbo-Charged connection was pulling more than 200 KB/s