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Re:French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen by jordigh on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @07:34AM (#19552964)
Well, they weren't torrent sites in the late 90s and probably not the early 2000s either. The Bittorrent protocol wasn't released until July 2001 and it took a few years to get popular.

Back then, they were just servers you downloaded stuff from.

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Re:French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen by epanchin on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @08:33AM (#19553338)
Napster started in 1999. Search was centralised, but downloads were p2p.

Edit: it shut down in 2001, and everyone I knew at the time was using it. vanderZwan might have misused the word torrent, but the rest of his post is spot on.

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Re:French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen by YUMad on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @08:10AM (#19553166)
SuprNova started in 2nd half od 2002. Anime subbing groups also started offerin torrents very early.
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Re:French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen by ElCapitanMarkla on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @11:05AM (#19563912)
I forgot about SuprNova. That site had me pushing my 10gb cap every month
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