Music piracy will come make a comeback eventually. Its already coming back with movies.

Paying for music is in a blip of being better than piracy for most people and the "morally correct" argument is very dominent right now.

But the contradiction between consumers wanting cheap convinient music and streaming cites wanting as much money as possible can't last like this forever.

Finally able to navigate past the WhatCD’s homepage—a mysterious login screen that read, “Beyond here is something like a utopia”—I familiarized myself with their textbook-length list of rules, and spent countless hours combing through everything the website had to offer.

A world where people read Da Rulz is still possible

i miss the times when paying for music was considered cringe

soulseek is still jamming bros. download nicotine+ from flathub

If you have any of the releases from those days or even scene releases form the before times, or can rip and upload, they are still desired on red and oph.

Cool article, I wasn't on any of these private trackers, but I remember them getting shut down.