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Re:Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004) by nol13 on Saturday February 04, 2017 @11:18PM (#13570833)
Downloads on the campus direct connect network in '02 are still the fastest I've achieved real world then or since, with a selection probably at least comparable to any torrent site. They've just never seen real file sharing.

Or is file sharing just now obsolete now? A bit out of the loop :/

Re:Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004) by ethbro on Sunday February 05, 2017 @09:12AM (#13572465)
One of the campuses I was on had fiber to every dorm room. I remember the banners on DC++ servers exhorting users not to play movies directly across the network. The idea of streaming a movie off someone else's hard drive certainly seemed like witchcraft.