ProstoPleer! Russian website with direct mp3 downloads and uploads, playlist creation and sharing, just like the old GrooveShark. I was lucky that I made a backup of all my playlists 2 months before it happened.
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TorrentDB. First tracker I participated. Good layout, nice rules. Sad to see it go
Maybe not the actual biggest, but the loss of pirated material that i feel the most sad about is The Trove. The Trove was a website with a huge list of downloadable PDFs of source books for tabletop RPGs. I got the pdfs for everything DND, and also tried a bunch of other games I'd never heard of with a few friends. It also had downloads for other books and documents but I only used it for RPGs. I think it went down in 2019 or so.
I think there are some telegram groups with that type of material in them if you take a quick look. Not sure how they compare with your old resource though.
This is a good time to introduce the concept of backups. Remember to backup both to local storage and to have a copy that is remote, in case of natural disaster.
DC++ It was just sharing stuff. No search. You connect to someone’s computer, they have a shared folder. You download what you want and move on. Instead of searching for stuff, you discovered it.
Oink, Demonoid, AsianDVDclub... Various private Hotline sites circa 90s. Sadly missed
Demonoid, absolutely! Warez-bb, and many oldschool GeoCities blogs. I remember one that had portable cracks of any programs you could imagine.
Newzbin.
Nzbmatrix
Napster
Taringa, it was the go-to place for everything, especially content in spanish
Haven't quite filled the void from 9anime/aniwave going down, hard to replace the king.
torrentz.eu, started my torrent journey in 2010 from this website.
nzbmatrix
You and another have already said it, but Emuparadise. It was...truly a shame. :'(
Black cats games :(
I remember using something called ourtunes back in college that just let everyone in the dorm freely access and download each others iTunes libraries on the dorm network.
ethor.net and rarbg.to
I still long for the old Scene Torrents days. RIP SCT
Free MP3 Download, which as of October 14, 2024 is still up on the megathread. The moment I start getting into downloading music online outside of downloading audio from yt videos, the site gets taken down a few months later. Now I don't know where to go for DDL since pretty much all of the other linked sites are either anime music, game music, or upload an [ Insert Service ] link and it'll give you an audio file to download from that service.
Asiandvdclub (not the shady remake)
What.cd. - RED is great but there's still a hole...
GrooveShark was a great music streaming service. If a track wasn't available you could just upload it and it would be available to all users.
It eventually got sued into oblivion leaving us with the streaming platforms of today. I really wish it could have made the transition to being legit because it had a great interface.
If you like the interface, check out Funkwhale. It's a federated service based on Grooveshark, but you need to provide your own mp3/flac files.
Oh hell yeah! That sounds great!
GrooveShark, for me, particularly thrived on early Android as Tinyshark. It was probably one of the first ways I remember actively listening to whatever music I wanted to; no algorithm outside of the list of "most popular songs".
Demonoid. They had a community that put together a lot of high-quality torrents.
This and I believe it was called TvTorrents. Private tracker that was amazing for TV shows.
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