[pyro2927]

Along these lines, I remember a program back in ~2006 that would allow you to download songs from other machines on a LAN network if they had iTunes open. Something about iTunes defaulting to sharing libraries on the network.

As someone in college at the time, this felt like a music goldmine. I remember running the program over night and downloading thousands of songs from other machines on campus. And while I was going to say I can't remember the name of it, I just fell down a rabbit hole of Google searches and found it, ourTunes!

https://ourtunes.sourceforge.net/

[303uru]

Yep. Ourtunes + a good portion of all 30k+ students being on one network + blazing fast network = a great time for grabbing music. The only issue I really remember is that the meta data would always be a total mess and you'd get no album artwork, so there was also an entire ecosystem of apps that would match music to albums, pull art and meta and tell you what songs you were missing.