Do people still use old style file sharing like limewire?

[Notatallsvelte]

Or are they all dead?

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Yes, forced to shut down by legal action because they facilitated the downloading of music without payment, costing the music industry (and the artists) millions of pounds over several years. Good riddance I say.

 

[hang-the-9]

Steaming services pretty much killed the need for those also, I have a good amount of CDs and MP3 files accumulated over the years but I have not played any of those in a very long time from using things like Pandora, Amazon Music, etc.. Paying $10-15 a month for access to almost anything you can think of is a pretty good deal and well worth not basically stealing.

I remember I had a computer sitting at one of my early jobs that all I did on it was rip CDs that me and my co-workers brought in to share across the office LOL Bit of a high tech making tapes of music version.

 

[USAFRet]

A former head network admin I worked with got marched out the door for using the company server farm as his own global music collection and distribution server.
Several P2P services.

CIO: "Kevin, don't do that"
'OK'
"Kevin, you really need to stop"
'OK'
"Kevin...you're fired"

 

[Jason H.]

Steaming services pretty much killed the need for those also, I have a good amount of CDs and MP3 files accumulated over the years but I have not played any of those in a very long time from using things like Pandora, Amazon Music, etc.. Paying $10-15 a month for access to almost anything you can think of is a pretty good deal and well worth not basically stealing.

I remember I had a computer sitting at one of my early jobs that all I did on it was rip CDs that me and my co-workers brought in to share across the office LOL Bit of a high tech making tapes of music version.

I just use youtube for my music, yes I pay for youtube premium so I can lock my phone while music plays but you dont really need that feature I guess and youtubes free.

I guess they dont ALWAYS have the song you want because of copyright issues but they have about 98% of what you would want, for free