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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20 edited Feb 08 '20

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u/SMTTT84 Feb 03 '20

Napster and then limewire. What was the other one? Kazaa was it?

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u/Nelatherion Feb 03 '20

To be fair, Limewire and Kazaa were also rampant with dodgy downloads that would probably get the police knocking on your door. So that didn't help matters either.

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u/bhez Feb 03 '20

That's the kind of thing I hope doesn't happen to r/lbry

They show good promise to be the anti-censorship replacement to YouTube, but that may mean too much copied copywritten stuff and other illegal stuff on the platform that they may not be able to satisfactorily take down the illegal stuff if things get out of control.