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I've used soulseek pretty recently! There's a nice client called nicotine, IIRC.

There are message bots that spam you with racist abuse if you're sharing nothing (i.e. not even your downloads), but that's about it.

Oh so pretty much the "classic" share something rule; that was pain in the ass in DC++ times but quality of whatever you could find there was best

DC++ now that's some nostalgia.

Myself used IRC XDCC bots connected to my 33k modem connected to my 486DX which would disconnect every three hours.

eDonkey, WinMX, lovely fashionable protocols.

DC++ was the best for dreamcast games back when I was in college.

Not to forget the eMule.

WinMX

That shit is apparently still alive somewhere in Latin America. I used it to get Spanish versions of films.