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What was the fallout from Metallica and Napster? Did it actually change anything? Or just spawn different sides of the same coin? (lemmy.world)
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[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago

They even went after private servers like Hotline and public FTP.

My parents internet got turned off after someone uploaded a Metallica album to my little brother’s drop box on a Hotline server.

He didn’t even know the files were in there at the time, and had been using the Hotline server to share 3D softwarez and models.

Made a lifelong ememy of Metallica that day.