[leeeeech]

Have you ever tried it? 90% of the time I tried it didn't work, in mirc or irssi.

[rasengan]

dcc sends and xdcc bots were pretty influential in the early internet. It definitely works.

[u801e]

It does require that one open a port in their firewall for it to actually work. xdcc bots usually would indicate which port one needed to open.

[coatmatter]

Having open ports directly to the internet (by default) with dial up modems (before routers and NAT) used to be such a common practice. Things have changed, haven't they?

[freeflight]

That's a pretty good point I totally forgot about. Tho couldn't that problem "simply" be solved by updating the protocol to account for these changes?

[freeflight]

IRC used to be a pretty popular distribution channel for Warez, tho it's been like 20 years ago I used it for anything like that.